The city is starting to roll out and deliver black bins to communities this week. Once you get your black bin, you should start using it immedately.
Black carts will improve garbage collection service by reducing litter in streets, increasing efficiency, and making things sager for both collectors and residents.
What is Black Cart Garbage Collection?
Black Cart Garbage Collection uses trucks with mechanical arms to collect garbage from wheeled carts, a lot like the way blue cart recycling is collected now. Homes that currently have garbage collected by hand will receive a black cart. Residents will put their regular household garbage in the cart instead of in a trash bag or can.
Black carts will improve garbage collection in a number of ways:
The carts keep garbage from getting scattered by animals or wind, and keeps neighbourhoods cleaner. Garbage stays in and pests stay out.
Black Cart Garbage Collection is more efficient, because it is collected using one-person trucks instead of two person crews.
The carts are safer for residents and our collectors, because they reduce heavy lifting and contact with sharp objects.
There is no extra fee for Black Cart Garbage Collection, and additional bags will still be collected. The City encourages home owners to reduce and recycle as much material as possible. However, garbage that does not fit in the cart can be put in bags or cans and set next to it.
Something most residents don’t know on the Real Estate aspect of things, is that both black bins and blue bins contain a serial number and are linked to the specific house that the City of Calgary delivered them to. As a result, when moving- both the black bins and blue bins must stay with the house. If you move into a home where the blue or black bins were not left behind-you need to get them back from the previous owner or you will be charged by the city for new ones.