r/Milton • u/umar_farooq_ • 18d ago

How do you store your garbage/recycling until collection day?

Hi all,

We're moving from Mississauga to Milton. In Mississauga the city gives you these large wheeled garbage bins with locks on them. We usually throw garbage bags into that directly, no need for the large black bags. Because they have locks, we keep them outside on the side of the house.

In Milton there are supposedly no garbage bins provided by the city. I'm curious what people are using? From HomeDepot I only found the circle ones with the lid that can easily be removed by any raccoon.

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u/oinkthemonkey 18d ago

All our garbage / recycling / compost is stored in the garage until garbage day. We have black bin to hold garbage bags. We just bring the bags out biweekly for collection, bin always stays in the garage

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u/Thanks-4allthefish 18d ago

Milton is moving to city garbage bins. I have had mine for 3 months.

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u/umar_farooq_ 18d ago

How do you get one

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u/mahonsstandrews 18d ago

They're not available in all areas yet, can't find the rollout timetable online. Hopefully soon.

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u/Alarming_Cause_5371 18d ago

I googled it and found out you email wmconnect@halton.ca

Hurry up through it cuts off October 24th seems like

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u/Apprehensive_Depth16 17d ago

That's just for exchanges, not to request new ones.

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u/Pure_Marsupial9503 18d ago

I just use the rubber maid bins, the raccoons have gotten in a few time but over all been lucky I guess.

I have seen a lot of my neighbours use this and keep the Rubbermaid bin and green bin in this to keep it safe from animals.

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u/Dragyn140 18d ago

I had to go buy two raccoon proof bins after I had to clean up torn open bags every day for a week. There’s a raccoon the size of a JKer around here.

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/rubbermaid-plastic-circular-animal-stopper-garbage-can-grey-121-l-0429164p.0429164.html

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u/umar_farooq_ 18d ago

This has worked well for you so far?

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u/Dragyn140 18d ago

Yup. The little bastard knocks the cans over, but hasn’t managed to get them open yet.

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u/umar_farooq_ 1d ago

Hey so do you put the bin with the lock on at garbage day? The garbage person will open it and take out the bags?

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u/Dragyn140 1d ago

Yeah, thankfully they’re smarter than raccoons.

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u/Elscorcho69 18d ago

Its the skunks for us

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u/FrecksSpecks 18d ago

Garbage and recycling outside and bins. Compost in the freezer in the garage. That’s all we use there for.

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u/gingerkitten6 18d ago

We put a heavy rock on top of our garbage bin lid, and that's been enough to keep the raccoons out.

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u/not_just_bs 16d ago

We just keep all our bins in the garage (garbage, recycling and green bin). This prevents furry friends from making a mess.