Waste Reports and Information

Responsibilities
Tonnes of Waste by Type
Tonnes of Waste by Source

Responsibilities

The Region of Durham is responsible for:

Collection, processing and sale of Blue Box recyclables
Disposal of residential garbage waste
Composting of food waste, as well as leaf and yard waste
Operation of a Recycling Centre

Operation of rural landfill site
Operation of three waste disposal transfer facilities
Operation of four household hazardous waste depots
Education and promotion of waste reduction programs

The Region of Durham is also responsible for the collection of garbage and food waste, leaf and yard waste, Christmas trees, White Goods and Bulky Goods in the following municipalities:

Town of Ajax
Township of Brock
Municipality of Clarington

City of Pickering
Township of Scugog
Township of Uxbridge

The following municipalities are locally responsible for the collection of garbage and food waste, leaf and yard waste, Christmas trees, and other special items, if offered:

City of Oshawa
Town of Whitby

Tonnes of Residential Waste by Type

The Region of Durham was responsible for the following:

Material	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Blue Box	44,099	47,056	55,511	55,485	53,967	50,765	51,609	53,157	51,689
Food Waste	2,839	2,883	13,976	26,211	25,907	27,454	27,594	26,865	26,899
Yard Waste	16,407	18,338	20,490	19,408	23,753	24,895	23,074	23,744	25,473
Composter and Grasscycling	2,802	8,746	9,139	8,950	9,908	10,158	9,839	9,887	10,516
Reuse	6,247	6,295	6,751	6,618	5,666	5,977	6,146	7,226	6,763
Garbage	149,424	148,709	133,845	116,285	116,464	109,999	108,000	107,670	107,722
Total	221,818	232,026	239,712	232,957	235,665	229,248	226,262	228,548	229,061

Tonnes of Residential Waste by Source

The Region of Durham processed the following tonnes of waste from the municipal sources shown below.

Municipality	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Pickering	33,180	34,758	33,670	32,005	31,181	30,179	29,100	28,788	28,505
Ajax	29,798	31,098	32,430	32,918	33,279	32,439	32,802	33,379	33,579
Whitby	37,832	41,024	42,304	39,565	40,827	40,583	40,492	41,924	41,749
Oshawa	53,770	56,649	58,316	55,837	56,925	54,710	53,791	53,128	54,284
Clarington	23,565	25,058	26,357	26,008	27,109	25,400	25,091	25,784	26,439
Scugog	6,977	7,341	7,630	7,361	7,536	6,997	6,899	7,099	7,208
Uxbridge	6,351	6,759	6,901	6,618	7,059	6,668	6,604	6,779	6,934
Brock	3,802	4,051	4,075	3,942	4,064	3,796	3,917	3,949	3,882
Total Residential Waste	195,275	206,738	211,683	204,254	207,980	200,772	198,696	200,830	202,599
Durham Waste Sites	26,543	25,288	28,029	28,703	27,685	28,475	27,566	27,602	26,331
Total	221,818	232,026	239,712	232,957	235,665	229,248	226,262	228,548	229,061

These totals include curbside, apartment and bulky goods waste, curbside and apartment recycling, kitchen food waste, leaf and yard waste composting, composter and grasscycling credits, and the reuse program tonnages.

(*) Numbers are rounded to the nearest whole number

Long Term Waste Management Plan

In December 1999, the Region of Durham adopted a "Long Term Waste Management Strategy Plan: 2000 to 2020 (PDF)".

The main goals of the waste plan are:

To divert at least 50 per cent of the residential waste from disposal by 2007 or earlier.
To secure an alternate source for the disposal of residential waste, when the City of Toronto's Keele Valley Landfill Site is closed.
To implement an integrated residential waste management system for the collection, processing and disposal of:
- Blue Box recyclables
- Food and yard waste compostables
- Residual garbage wastes
- Special wastes
To consider an "energy-from-waste" facility for the disposal of residual garbage waste.

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