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Some Edmonton households, including households with five or more people, find one black bin every two weeks adequate.

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This claim has not been checked. It is waiting on the question below, which is what a brief, a body of evidence and a panel run are spent on.

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The City's collection calendars and program history show how often each stream is picked up and whether garbage went from weekly to every two weeks, and its waste audits show how full carts get; one household's dump runs and one family's diaper volume can't be checked and will be dropped.

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Are Edmonton's garbage, green-bin and recycling collection schedules adequate for households?

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Taken from Edmonton Rant and Rave post on garbage service, 2026-09-10, read end to end. Every factual claim in it was extracted and merged, so this one is listed whatever became of it.

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Every wording of this claim found in the source, quoted exactly. The names are pseudonyms, one to a person within the source.

  • I have no issues with the one bin every two weeks. I did up until I started recycling and composting properly.

    Icy Porcupine S.

  • 5 people in my house, 4 which are adults and we only have 1 bin every 2 weeks... you should look into recycling and compost what you can

    Icy Nuthatch K.

  • I have a large family and the large bin is more than adequate for our needs. We rarely fill it.

    Willow Merlin T.

  • We have so little garbage we often don't put the black bin out for a month or more in Winter.

    Sunny Jackrabbit L.

  • Im a family of 5 adults. The big black bin is good for us every 2 weeks

    Frosty Muskrat T.

  • Even with one collection every two weeks there's often some room in the small black bin we have but then we know how to recycle and minimize the waste

    Northern Woodpecker N.

  • i have 3 adults and 4 kids in my house and never have a full black bin or green bin

    Amber Bison C.