{
 "answer": "In the Town of Essex, Ontario, garbage & recycling rules are set by Garbage and Recycling (Town of Essex), verified 2026-10-23. Fee: White goods collected free of charge; no fee stated for other streams. Container or bag limit: Each household receives one 360-litre wheeled, lidded recycling cart; smaller cart available on request. Accepted or banned: Single-stream recycling accepts paper, cardboard, plastics, cartons, metal, glass. Alcoholic beverage containers excluded from recycling.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-001509",
 "municipality": "Essex",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "waste_collection",
 "label": "Garbage & recycling",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-10-23",
 "official_website": "http://www.essex.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Garbage and Recycling (Town of Essex)",
   "category": "waste_collection",
   "document_type": "announcement",
   "status": "n/a",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.essex.ca/live/garbage-and-recycling/",
   "summary": "rules page: weekly garbage Monday (south of County Rd 18) or Wednesday (north), set out night before, GFL contractor, single-stream recycling cart, green bin via Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Authority.",
   "discovered_by": "on-garbage",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-18",
   "capture_sha256": "dff5c14c9f618604b5f583965ef9cde5428a5da7d42cdf1905bcc2aff5a47705",
   "captured_at": "2026-10-18T15:05:27+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/dff5c14c9f618604b5f583965ef9cde5428a5da7d42cdf1905bcc2aff5a47705.html",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "collection_schedule": "Garbage: weekly (Monday — Wards 3 & 4 south of County Rd 18; Wednesday — Wards 1 & 2 north of County Rd 18). Green Bin: weekly (from October 2025). Yard waste: seasonal Saturdays, Ward 1; other wards per Collection Calendar. White goods: first Thursday of every month.",
    "sorting_required": true,
    "container_or_bag_limit": "Each household receives one 360-litre wheeled, lidded recycling cart; smaller cart available on request.",
    "accepted_or_banned": "Single-stream recycling accepts paper, cardboard, plastics, cartons, metal, glass. Alcoholic beverage containers excluded from recycling.",
    "fee": "White goods collected free of charge; no fee stated for other streams."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "collection_schedule": "\"weekly schedule\" / \"first Thursday of every month\"",
    "sorting_required": "\"single stream recycling program. All recyclable materials…can be placed together in the designated recycling cart\"",
    "container_or_bag_limit": "\"Each household will receive a 360-litre wheeled, lidded recycling cart\"",
    "accepted_or_banned": "\"Do not include alcoholic beverage containers\" (repeated across plastic, metal, glass, carton sections)",
    "fee": "\"free of charge, on the first Thursday of every month\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/essex/garbage-recycling/garbage-and-recycling/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/essex/garbage-recycling/"
}