The City of Lethbridge provides three depots of combined recycling stations and yard waste sites. Each area of the city has one of these stations for your convenience.
The Lethbridge Waste & Recycling Centre (City landfill) also has a place where residents can drop off garbage and other unwanted items, including recyclables and yard waste. Click here for more info.
Glass is accepted at the depots. Glass is not accepted in the blue residential recycling carts.
What materials are not accepted?
Dispose of Styrofoam in your curbside garbage cart. Food waste and soiled paper products can be composted in the curbside green carts come May for those not already a part of Phase 1 Curbside Organics.
Other items such as household hazardous waste, e-waste, paint and oil can be recycled at the Waste & Recycling Centre (Landfill).
Household recycling such as paper, cardboard, plastic, metal and glass is collected and processed at local facilities, then sold on the open market as a commodity, where it gets recycled into new materials.
*The City of Lethbridge, along with the Society to Prevent Dutch Elm Disease (STOPDED), encourages residents to pay close attention to the Provincial elm pruning ban which is in place between April 1 to September 30.
What materials are not accepted?
The City of Lethbridge, along with the Society to Prevent Dutch Elm Disease (STOPDED), encourages residents to pay close attention to the Provincial elm pruning ban which is in place between April 1 to September 30.
For more information on how to dispose of items not listed here, check out the Waste Wizard.
Can I bring yard waste in plastic bags?
Please bring bagged yard waste in paper bags. Plastic bags are not compostable and are not accepted for yard waste collection; material must be removed from all plastic. Un-bagging is time consuming and creates unnecessary plastic waste. As the sites are self-serve, unloading or un-bagging help is not provided.
Reminder: Paper yard waste bags are designed to be 'rolled' or folded closed at the top. The site cannot accept any oversized bags larger than 30 gallons due to safety concerns. Please avoid using any tape or staples to close paper bags, as these materials are not compostable and will not break down.
Retailers that stock paper bags:
What happens to my yard waste?
Grass, leaves, branches and other yard waste is brought to the Waste & Recycling Centre to be mulched and composted and used in city parks and planting beds. Composting helps to extend the life of the landfill. Composting also reduced the production of greenhouse gases in the landfill and allows the nutrients to return to the soil and be used for new plant growth.
Contact Us
City Hall
910 4 Avenue South
Lethbridge, AB T1J 0P6
Phone: 311
or 403-320-3111 (if outside of Lethbridge)
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