Garbage & Recycling

A garbage bin outside a house on a residential street in the autumn.

Garbage collection update and current collection schedule

Update November 21: With the announcement that the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George and CUPE 1699 have reached a tentative Collective Agreement ending job action, residential garbage pick-up will move back to the regular Monday-Friday schedule from December 1. 
 

Next week there will be residential garbage collection Tuesday, November 25 - Friday, November 28 as follows: 

  • Orange zone - Saturday (November 22 only and then next pick up will be December 1)
  • Blue zone - Tuesday
  • Yellow zone - Wednesday
  • Red zone - Thursday
  • Green zone - Friday
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Garbage collection

Garbage collection and evacuation zones

As part of local emergency preparedness, the City of Prince George has established evacuation zones that match the residential garbage collection zones. Note that where a boundary between two colours follows a street, the boundary runs down the centre of the street. Areas of the City that do not have garbage collection are identified as evacuation zones A, B, C, and D.

A map of the garbage collection and evacuation zones

Online Garbage Schedule

Do not overfill the cart and please remember to place recycle containers 2 meters from garbage cart.

What's an RFID and why does my garbage cart have one?

RFID - or radio frequency identification - tags use radio frequency technology to track objects. These tags are often used on airline luggage, tickets, or retail store items. The RFID tag attached to your cart doesn't change how you use your cart or alter the way the carts are put out on collection days.

What the tags do is make our collection routes more efficient, which reduces our carbon footprint. Functioning tags also reduce the odds of us missing carts on collection days and help keep recyclables out of our landfills.

Privacy concerns

The City collects photos of household garbage cart infractions such as overflowing carts, which do not meet the City of Prince George Garbage Collection Regulation Bylaw No. 7661, 2004. These photos are collected under the authority of section 26(c) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The information collected through the RFID tags is stored by the City on a secure server and any captured personal content such as people or vehicles is blurred out to protect privacy.

If you have questions about the collected photos please contact us at 3-1-1 (or 250-561-7600 outside city limits).