Minimum $10 fee at county waste facilities now in effect
WELLINGTON COUNTY – Beginning Jan. 1 a new $10 minimum user fee will be implemented at each of the county’s six waste facility sites.
The minimum fee is intended to encourage residents to use the county’s existing curbside collection program which is provided to every single-family household across the county.
The minimum fee will apply to all materials brought to county waste facilities, including waste contained in yellow user-pay garbage bags, with several exemptions.
Materials designated by the Government of Ontario, under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act (RRCEA), will be exempt from the minimum fee.
Those items, currently designated under the RRCEA and financially supported by producers, include:
household hazardous waste;
tires; and
electronic waste.
In addition to the above items, residential leaf and yard waste delivered to county waste facilities from April through November will also be exempt from the minimum fee.
For more information, visit the Wellington County website at wellington.ca/waste-facilities.
