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There’s just no way around it: we make waste every day. We make waste as we cook meals, as we tend to our yards, and as we shop in our communities. As our city has grown and changed, so has the way we think about and manage our waste.

That’s why we have three different bins to collect our waste. Calgary’s black, blue and green cart programs make the most sense financially and environmentally for our community.

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Calgarians are now composting and recycling more waste than is sent to landfill. By using the black, blue and green carts at home, you have saved a generation’s worth of landfill space in Calgary, and that’s a great thing.

But those aren’t the only reasons we need you to sort your waste.

The proper sorting that you do at home makes a big difference. That’s how Calgary has maintained one of the lowest-cost, three-cart programs compared to cities of similar size. And we want to keep it that way. Your recycling, compost and garbage can’t all go in one bin to be sorted later — there is no single piece of equipment that can sort waste better than you can at home.