Waste Collection - Garbage, Recycling & Composting

In order to confirm your pick-up schedule, please refer to the pick-up map and 2021 calendar or download the Town of Coaldale Solid Waste Wizard app. The 2022 calendar is also available now.

Holiday Pick-Up Schedule

Garbage, Recycling & Composting collection is only rescheduled on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Please refer to each year's individual calendar as holiday pick-up scheduling may change year by year. All other holidays during the year the collection days stay on the regular schedule.

Winter Composting Pick-Up Schedule

In order to accommodate yard waste, the composting carts will be picked up weekly from March 1 until November 30. Through December to February, the composting carts will be picked up bi-weekly.

Proper Bin Display:

In accordance with the Town of Coaldale’s Solid Waste Bylaw 791-R-11-20, bins must:    

• Be located at least one (1) metre from any object on either side of the container;
• Be located at least thirty (30) centimetres from any object behind the container;
• Have an overhead clearance above the top of the automated collection container of three (3) metres;
• Be placed in an upright position with the lid closed and the front of the container facing the street or alley.

Please be aware of the 250lb weight limit on your bins. If any of these requirements are violated or your bins exceed the weight limit, they may not be picked up. Materials that do not fit or are too heavy for bins can be taken to the nearest transfer station.

Residential & Commercial Pickup Rates

• Residential: $29.50/month, one (1) pickup per week
• Commercial: $59.15/month, includes two (2) pickups per week, with additional pickups at a cost of $26.25 per additional garbage pickup and $13.00 for additional recycling pick-up.

Green Waste

Residents have two options for green waste.

1. Residents can utilize the City of Lethbridge landfill coupons available at the Town office. Each homeowner can pick up three free vouchers each year.
2. Green waste can also be placed in your composting cart. 

In lieu of its traditional Spring Cleanup service, the Town has initiated a coupon voucher system to help offset the cost to dispose of additional waste. Instead of having Town crews collect waste from alleys once per year—a program which proved to be both time consuming and costly, unsightly and prone to unforeseen weather delays — the Town has purchased landfill coupons/tokens to cover the City of Lethbridge’s disposal fees.

These coupons can be used by residents to dispose of additional waste that typically follows spring cleanup, household renovations and other “deep cleans.” Common items that are taken to landfills include old furniture, scraps of lumber, household garbage, demolition materials from home renovations, broken up concrete, and the like. The goal of this program is to make spring cleanup and other residential maintenance more convenient and affordable for residents. Additionally, the coupon service can be utilized year round, so home renovations do not have to coincide with an annual, and at times unpredictable, cleanup schedule.

How It Works

• Each residence in Coaldale will receive three coupons per year
• Coupons cover the disposal of 250 kilograms of waste and can be picked up from the Town office
• Coupons must be presented to personnel at the City of Lethbridge’s landfill weigh scale

Guidelines

• One load per coupon
• All loads must be tarped, covered and tied down as per City of Lethbridge requirements
• No hazardous waste is permitted
• Disposal does not include environmental charges
• Coupons not available to residents who don’t receive waste services from the Town

For hours of operation or other details, please contact the City of Lethbridge Regional Landfill. Should you have any questions or would like more about this program, please contact 403.345.1350. Landfill coupons are available for pickup at the Town office.

Hours of Operation

The Drop-Off site has moved to 93003 RGE RD 201A next to the Coaldale Transfer Station. A map can be found here.

We are open as of April 19, 2022. The Hours of Operation are Tuesday - Sunday, 8:30am to 8:30pm. Please adhere to the guidelines below.

Rules & Regulations

Please be advised that ONLY the approved yard & organics waste listed below are to be disposed of at this site. We have observed a large influx of non-organic related waste in the bins resulting in a sizable amount of contamination. 

What can be disposed of at the drop-off site?

• Plants and flowers
• Landscape vegetation
• Vegetative garden waste
• Leaves and grass clippings
• Houseplants
• Shrub and tree clippings under 3" in diameter and 4' in length
• Green waste packed into brown yard bags are accepted

Additional Instructions

• The site is intended for disposal of extra green waste that otherwise would not fit in your green bin. Green bins may still be used as normal to dispose of your green waste.
• Absolutely no garbage or construction materials. This includes plastic bags and any other items not listed above. The site will be under 24-hour video surveillance.
• Leaves, grass and loose items need to be in brown yard waste bags. Branches cannot be bigger than 3” in diameter and 4’ long.
• This site will be maintained daily by Town staff. Please add your waste to the pile and be considerate of others using this service. 
• Plastic bags labeled as “compostable” or "biodegradable" are not accepted. ALL BAGS MUST BE 100% PAPER OR FIBRE MATERIALS. To learn why, scroll down to the "Compost" section.

The Town of Coaldale handles the maintenance of trees in parks, recreation areas and along town roads throughout the year. Residents are encouraged to keep their own trees healthy in order to protect the overall health of trees throughout our community.

Spring is a great time to check your trees to ensure they are getting the proper water, nutrients and air in order to maintain their health. Our Town Arborist encourages residents to mulch the root zone to keep roots moist and cool. Mulching will also help inhibit weed growth.

If you are not seeing new growth on trees, visit a landscaping or nursery and pick up some tree and shrub fertilizer. Trees also need air in order to grow and won’t do well in hard compacted soil. If you’re planning to plant new trees, work in some organic matter such a peat moss or compost from your garden composter. Mix it in with the soil before planting your tree.

Pruning is also an important step to keep your trees healthy and can help prolong its life span if done properly.

Learn more about how to properly prune your tree

Local issues – One of the issues for trees in Coaldale is the spruce sawfly. If you check a spruce or evergreen, you may notice some tips of branches are bare, they are being chewed or sucked on by insects and most of the time it is the sawfly. There could be other insects so if you notice this on your trees and it is more than a couple of branches throughout the tree, call a tree care service.

Another issue for Spruce trees in Coaldale is the white pine weevil. If you look at the tips at the top of the tree, or the leader, and see no needles left and a bend to the branch, known as a shephard’s crook, you have the white pine weevil in action. It will need to be pruned out of the tree. Call a tree care service.

Learn more about pests of coniferous trees and shrubs

Elm Tree Pruning Ban – From April 1 to September 30 of every year there is a ban on the pruning of elm trees. If you have trimmed a tree please do not leave branches lying around, get rid of them but dropping them off at the local landfill. Do not use elm wood as fire wood.

Learn more about Alberta Dutch Elm Disease 

In order to accommodate yard waste, the composting carts will be picked up weekly from March 1 until November 30. Through December to February, the composting carts will be picked up bi-weekly.