What Goes in the Green Cart

Check out our Organics - What Goes In infosheet (PDF, 1,723 KB) and use our Waste Wise tool to help you figure out what can be composted. For more information, contact the City at 311.

Please remember to line your Green Cart with a certified compostable bag before placing acceptable items in it.

Items that belong in the Green Cart

• Food scraps: produce, meat, bones, cooled grease, fat and cooking oil, eggs and eggshells, coffee grounds/filters/tea bags, and similar items.
• Non-recyclable paper products: paper cups, plates, tissues, napkins, sugar/flour/potato bags.
• Organic material: house plants and soil, Halloween pumpkins, crab apples.

If you have unacceptable material in your Green Cart it will not be collected. 

Leaf and yard trimmings do not go in the Green Cart. Please see our leaf and yard trimmings page for more information.

Learn what to do with fatty liquids in your Green Cart (PDF, 533 KB).