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City’s Annual Community Cleanup Targets Winter Waste

Save the dates! The City’s Adopt-a-Block Community Cleanup Days are back, Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24, 2025. Residents, local businesses, and schools can adopt a block of space around their neighbourhood, office, playground, trail system, or other public space to clean up the waste revealed by melting snow. The initiative was introduced last year with positive results.

“Over two days, we had 10 organizations, 7 businesses, and 128 individual residents and youth participate,” says Meagan Baranyk, the City’s Community Programs Manager. “We saw laneways, parks, boulevards, and neighbourhoods transformed. We’re hoping for even more participation this year. Helping to reduce and prevent litter is the responsibility of every resident and property owner.”

Registration for Adopt-a-Block begins May 1, 2025. Once again, the City will be providing cleanup kits with gloves and garbage bags to registered teams requesting supplies. Environmental Services will also pick-up all of the garbage collected on May 23 and 24. Each team will be given a designated drop-off location where collected garbage can be left and quickly picked up by City staff.

“We want to make this process as simple as possible,” adds Baranyk. “When the snow finally melts, there’s often a large amount of litter left behind. This shouldn’t be the case, and we want to reinforce that properly disposing of waste is essential for the well-being of the community, but we can also look at this as an opportunity to work together. We all deserve clean parks and public spaces.”

The City’s annual Residential Curbside Bulk Item Collection Program also happens in May. Between May 5 and May 16, 2025 residents can dispose of large, bulky items that are not accepted through regular waste collection. The program includes one free load of residential household waste per property at the Deloro Landfill Site during the same dates. Leaf and yard waste collection also runs May 5 – May 16, 2025 when Public Works will deploy a dump truck and chipper along residential streets to mulch branches, tree trimmings, and organic plant material from gardening and yard maintenance. It’s coordinated with bulk item collection to make it easier for residents to remember collection dates.

For more information on Adopt-a-Block Community Cleanup Days, Residential Curbside Bulk Item Collection or Leaf and Yard Waste Collection, visit: https://www.timmins.ca/our_services/waste_recycling_services.

Posted by Amanda Dyer On 4/15/2025 at 3:27 PM