{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001584",
 "municipality": "Kingston",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "waste_collection",
 "label": "Garbage & recycling",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-10",
 "official_website": "http://www.cityofkingston.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Garbage By-law",
   "category": "waste_collection",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "http://www.cityofkingston.ca/bylaws-and-animal-services/commonly-requested-bylaws/bylaw-library/garbage-bylaw/",
   "summary": "City of Kingston Garbage By-law regulating waste collection and disposal.",
   "capture_sha256": "34bb799a285736834d1d552bfe8a247dc468b88e6f642dba2b680d5f9ac9b78d",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/34bb799a285736834d1d552bfe8a247dc468b88e6f642dba2b680d5f9ac9b78d.html",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "collection_schedule": "Weekly garbage and recycling collection; yard waste set out by 8 a.m. on the Monday of the scheduled yard waste collection week. Specific days per area determined by the Manager.",
    "sorting_required": true,
    "container_or_bag_limit": "1 Garbage Receptacle per Residential Unit per week (standard residential); unlimited additional receptacles if a Garbage Bag Tag is affixed to each.",
    "accepted_or_banned": "Banned from garbage: tires, construction debris, yard waste, liquid waste, MHSW. Recycling accepted: metal, plastic, glass, paper, cardboard.",
    "fee": "Fees for Garbage Bag Tags, additional recycling boxes, kitchen containers, backyard composters, and facility disposal; amounts set in Bylaw 2005-10 and Bylaw 2005-260."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "collection_schedule": "s. 5.5(3): \"Set Out by 8 a.m. on the Monday of the Yard Waste collection week\"; Schedule \"A\" (Category 1): \"1 per Residential Unit, per week\"",
    "sorting_required": "s. 5.4.1: \"Owners or Occupants shall Set Out Recyclable Materials for collection using the appropriate Recycling Receptacle as identified in Schedule \\\"D\\\"\"; Schedule \"D\" (separate Blue Box, Grey Box, and wheeled cart material streams)",
    "container_or_bag_limit": "Schedule \"A\", Category 1: \"1 per Residential Unit, per week\"; s. 5.2(2): \"No Owner or Occupant shall Set Out more Garbage per Eligible Property per Scheduled Collection Day than the Garbage Limit described on Schedule \\\"A\\\" unless each excess Garbage Receptacle has a Garbage Bag Tag affixed\"",
    "accepted_or_banned": "Schedule \"B\" (Unacceptable Items For Garbage Collection); Schedule \"D\" (Recyclable Materials)",
    "fee": "s. 3.3: \"Fees related to this Bylaw shall be identified in Bylaw 2005-10 \\\"Fees and Charges\\\" and Bylaw 2005-260\"; definition of \"Fee\": \"Garbage Bag Tags, additional blue or grey recycling boxes, kitchen containers, backyard composters\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/kingston/garbage-recycling/text-34bb799a2857/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/kingston/garbage-recycling/"
}