Activities
Residential and non-residential roadside waste collection services will be rescheduled. Please do not place garbage, green carts or blue boxes at the roadside as this may impact road clearing efforts.
Alternate pickup dates will be communicated once available.
All landfill sites and the Recycling Center are closed.
Garbage, recycling and composting activities for students
- Waste Sorting Pledge (PDF, 413 KB)
- Teach students how to create a newspaper origami basket (PDF, 221 KB) to line their green cart at home.
- Teach students how to sort their waste with the divert or landfill game (PDF, 2,160 KB) or our don't be a waster exercise (PDF, 37 KB).
- Teach students to be mindful of how much waste they generate with our waste spectators activity (PDF, 31 KB).
- Teach students about the environmental impacts of packaging with our autobiography of a package (PDF, 210 KB) or pass the packaging (PDF, 251 KB) exercise.
- Teach students what happens to their garbage and recycling by completing a garbage story (PDF, 184 KB) or recycling story (PDF, 190 KB).
- Teach students how to make their own paper (PDF, 138 KB).
- Teach students about household hazardous waste (PDF, 103 KB).
Downloadable word puzzles
• Environmental word search (PDF, 52 KB)
• Household hazardous waste crossword (PDF, 89 KB)
• Reduce, reuse, recycle crossword with answers (PDF, 21 KB)
• Unscramble the words exercise (PDF, 42 KB)