Dartmouth Garbage Schedule: Check Today, Tomorrow and HRM Cancellation Alerts
Dartmouth does not have one citywide garbage day. Enter the exact civic address in HRM’s schedule tool, confirm whether the date shows garbage, recycling or organics, and then check current service alerts during storms. This guide also covers the 2026 Area II PDF, clear-bag limits, weekly summer green carts, bulky items, apartments, missed pickups and 311 help.
Quick Answer: Find Your Dartmouth Garbage Pickup Day
Use HRM’s address-based collection tool or HFX Recycles. The Area II PDF shows Dartmouth’s annual collection pattern, but only the civic-address result tells you the correct street date.
Enter the civic number and street
Do not search only by Dartmouth, Woodside, Woodlawn, Portland Estates or another neighbourhood name.
Read the collection type
Confirm whether the date shows organics and garbage, organics and recycling, or a holiday-adjusted collection.
Check for disruption
During snow, freezing rain, wind or road closures, verify the dated HRM notice before leaving waste outside.
This page covers Dartmouth, Nova Scotia within Halifax Regional Municipality. Dartmouth, Massachusetts collection rules do not apply.
HRM Garbage Collection Schedule Today or Tomorrow
The dates below use Atlantic time. They help you select the right day in HRM’s address tool but do not claim that your property is scheduled or that collection is operating normally.
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Enter your civic address, read the stream shown for today and check the dated service notice.
Open today’s address scheduleConfirm tomorrow’s stream, holiday adjustment and weather status before preparing material.
Open tomorrow’s scheduleHRM schedules are tied to the civic address. A static article does not know your property, apartment arrangement or a last-minute route disruption.
Garbage Pickup Schedule in My Area: Dartmouth Address Lookup
Two homes in the same general neighbourhood may not have the same route. Use the municipality’s web app for the final answer.
Open the HRM tool
Choose the collection schedule and What Goes Where page.
Enter the civic address
Use the official street name. Omit an apartment number unless the tool requests it.
Save a reminder
Print the custom calendar or choose app, email, text or phone notifications.
Retry without abbreviations, confirm the civic number and use the official street spelling. Call 311 for a new property, private lane, condominium or building that does not appear correctly.
Is HRM Garbage Collection Cancelled Today?
A school closure, transit disruption or municipal-office closure does not automatically cancel waste collection. Use the waste-specific service notice and HFX Recycles.
Open Service Updates
Confirm that the notice applies to today—not an older recovery event still visible on the page.
Open HFX Recycles
Confirm that your civic address was scheduled and review any weather alert.
Call 311
Ask whether your route is delayed, cancelled, recovering later or moved to another date.
Still confirm your route
The absence of a cancellation notice does not mean your address is scheduled today.
Follow the exact recovery instruction
HRM may assign a Saturday date, request removal from the curb or provide instructions for extra material at a later collection.
Dartmouth Garbage Collection Schedule 2026 PDF: Area II
Dartmouth is listed in Area II of HRM’s official two-page calendar. Use the PDF for annual planning, holiday replacements, giveaway weekends and the summer green-cart period.
AREA II
2026
Green cart plus separately prepared recycling.
Green cart plus permitted clear-bag garbage.
Follow the stream shown for the address and date.
No regular collection on the marked date.
Replacement date for a holiday-affected route.
June 6–7 and October 17–18, 2026.
“Dartmouth is Area II” does not reveal your weekday. Use the address tool to identify the exact date within the Area II pattern.
HRM Holiday Collection Changes for Dartmouth in 2026
Only properties normally collected on the holiday date move to the listed Saturday. Verify your civic address before using an alternate date.
The Household Special Waste Depot closes when recycling collection is rescheduled to Saturday for a holiday or weather event. Do not combine a make-up collection trip with an unverified depot visit.
Weekly Dartmouth Green Cart Collection: June 29–October 2, 2026
HRM confirmed weekly green-cart collection across the municipality from Monday, June 29 through Friday, October 2, 2026. Garbage and recycling continue on the address-specific calendar.
Follow the regular calendar
Green carts normally follow the every-second-week organics schedule shown for the address.
Green cart every week
Place the green cart out on the weekly day displayed for your civic address.
Return to the regular cycle
Use the app or address calendar to confirm the next every-second-week organics date.
The temporary weekly service applies to the green cart. It does not turn every week into garbage or recycling week.
Dartmouth Collection-Morning Setup
A correct date can still result in rejection when material is late, overweight, hidden behind snow or prepared in the wrong bag.
Ready before 7 a.m.
Set-out can begin at 7 p.m. the evening before. Routes can start at 7 a.m. and may arrive at a different time each cycle.
Leave about 1 metre
Separate garbage and recycling so collectors can identify each stream at a glance.
Bring leftovers back by 9 p.m.
Remove uncollected garbage, recycling and carts unless HRM instructs residents to leave them for recovery.
Keep material accessible without placing it on top of a snowbank or in a plow path. Tie bags, secure cardboard and avoid early set-out during strong harbour winds.
Dartmouth Clear-Bag Garbage Rules and Limits
- Bag length when empty: approximately 0.5–1 metre.
- Maximum full-bag weight: 25 kg.
- Use a bag strong enough not to tear when lifted.
- Clear bags may be stored inside a garbage can for privacy.
- Tie bags securely before set-out.
- No yellow garbage bags.
- No red garbage bags.
- No transparent blue garbage bags.
- No extra opaque bags beyond the privacy allowance.
- No loose garbage placed directly in a can.
What size garbage can is accepted?
A metal or plastic can must have handles and a secure cover, be approximately 46–76 cm high and 38–51 cm in diameter, and weigh no more than 34 kg when full.
What belongs in garbage after the 2025 recycling changes?
Garbage includes non-recyclable and non-organic household material. Compostable or biodegradable plastic belongs in garbage—not the green cart. Books and pots or pans may also use garbage when donation or scrap-metal reuse is not practical.
Dartmouth Recycling Schedule and 2026 Sorting Changes
Recycling is collected every two weeks. HRM continues using separate bagged streams after Nova Scotia’s Extended Producer Responsibility transition.
Tied transparent blue or clear bag
- Plastic containers and tubs
- Glass bottles and jars
- Steel and aluminum containers
- Milk and juice cartons
- Beverage cups and multilayer containers
- Plastic tubes and small packaging
Keep separate from containers
- Clean and dry paper
- Newspapers, flyers and magazines
- Envelopes and paper egg cartons
- Boxboard
- Shredded paper inside a tied clear bag
- Clean multilayer paper packaging
Flatten and bundle separately
Prepare bundles approximately 2 ft × 3 ft × 8 in and place them beside the recycling bags.
HRM does not set a curbside limit on the number of properly prepared recycling bags.
Recyclables must be securely bagged. A blue box or bin can hold tied bags, but loose material and wheeled recycling carts are not accepted for curbside collection.
Stretchy film versus crinkly flexible packaging
Stretchy film such as shopping bags, bread bags, cling wrap and bubble wrap can go in container recycling when stuffed together. Crinkly flexible packaging such as chip bags, coffee pouches and cereal liners uses a participating depot route or garbage when depot use is not practical.
What changed under EPR?
Paper beverage cups, ice-cream cartons, spiral cans, plastic tubes, garden pots and selected small plastic packaging became accepted. Books and pots or pans are no longer accepted curbside. Residential routes and 311 customer support remain familiar for properties receiving municipal service.
Dartmouth Green Cart, Leaf Bags and Branch Limits
- All food scraps
- Fruit and vegetable peelings
- Meat, fish and bones
- Dairy products
- Fat, cooking oil and grease
- Bread, rice and pasta
- Coffee grounds, filters and tea bags
- Food-soiled napkins and paper towels
- Uncoated paper plates and wooden cutlery
- No plastic or compostable plastic bags.
- No paper or Styrofoam coffee cups.
- No ashes.
- No waxed or film packaging.
- No corrugated cardboard.
- No pet waste.
- No soil, sod, rocks or logs.
- No grass clippings.
Wrap wet food in paper, freeze strong-smelling scraps until collection morning, keep the cart shaded and place it out even when it is not full.
A cord used to secure the cart from wildlife must be removed before collection so the lid can open safely.
Missed Garbage, Recycling or Green Cart in Dartmouth
Before calling, determine whether the route is delayed, cancelled or whether the material was rejected.
- Was it the correct date for the civic address?
- Was that waste stream scheduled?
- Was everything outside before 7 a.m.?
- Was there a weather or holiday notice?
- Were garbage and recycling separated?
- Did bag count, colour and weight comply?
- Was there a rejection sticker?
- Could snow, cars or roadwork block access?
Ask whether it is a route or preparation issue
Provide the civic address, collection date, waste stream, set-out time and the wording on any sticker.
“My address is [address] in Dartmouth. My [garbage/recycling/green cart] was scheduled for [date] and was out before 7 a.m. There is [no sticker/a sticker saying ___]. Is the route delayed, or was the material rejected?”
Remove uncollected material by 9 p.m. unless HRM directs residents to leave it outside for a recovery collection.
Dartmouth Furniture, Mattresses, Appliances and Renovation Waste
One bulky item per garbage date
The item must not exceed 200 kg or 8 feet in length.
Two items per building
The allowance is shared by the building, not provided separately to every unit.
No HRM curbside bulky collection
Contact the landlord, condominium corporation or private waste provider.
Can a mattress or sofa go out?
Furniture, mattresses and box springs can qualify as the permitted bulky item when they meet the size, weight and property-type limits. Do not create a pile or place an item outside before the correct garbage date.
What about a fridge, freezer or air conditioner?
Refrigerant must be removed and the appliance marked before disposal. Eligible curbside residents can contact 311 for HRM’s residential refrigerant-removal process.
How much renovation material can a house place out?
An eligible single-unit property may replace up to five garbage bags with qualifying small renovation waste. Wood bundles must not exceed 34 kg or 1.2 m. Small pieces must be safely tied in a clear bag. Two-to-six-unit buildings cannot use curbside renovation-waste collection.
Which Dartmouth Property Rules Apply?
Address-based curbside service
Eligible houses and small buildings can use HRM’s civic-address calendar and residential limits.
Building-bin programme
Use the waste room or exterior bins and follow the manager’s posted schedule. Ordinary residential curbside bag and bulky limits do not apply.
Clear garbage bags required
Follow the condominium’s collection setup and separate organics, container recycling, paper and cardboard.
Apartment buildings must provide properly labelled separation options. Tenants can call 311 when required recycling or composting service is missing.
Household Special Waste Near Dartmouth
Paint, fuel, corrosive cleaners, pesticides, propane cylinders and similar products never belong in curbside garbage, recycling or the green cart.
20 Horseshoe Lake Drive
The Bayers Lake depot accepts residential household special waste only on scheduled Saturdays.
9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Check the official date list because the depot closes on Saturday holiday make-up collection days.
Not accepted
Businesses must use a private hazardous-material handler.
- Paint and paint aerosols
- Corrosive cleaners
- Pesticides and herbicides
- Gasoline and solvents
- Used motor oil and filters
- Household batteries
- Propane and butane cylinders
- Fluorescent lamps and mercury products
- No regular garbage or recycling.
- No cooking oil.
- No appliances or electronics.
- No needles or biomedical waste.
- No asbestos.
- No construction debris.
- No commercial hazardous waste.
Keep products upright, sealed and in original labelled containers where possible. Never mix chemicals. Place containers in a stable box in the vehicle.
Dartmouth Garbage Collection Contacts
Common Dartmouth Collection Mistakes
Related HRM and Halifax Collection Guides
These live same-site pages support the next useful step without sending Dartmouth residents to unrelated municipalities.
Official Sources for Final Dartmouth Decisions
The explanation is provided inside the article first. Use the appropriate official page below for the live address, alert or material decision.
Official-source review completed July 22, 2026. Route alerts, accepted materials, facility dates and service instructions can change; verify the relevant HRM source before set-out or travel.
Dartmouth Garbage Collection Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find the garbage pickup schedule in my Dartmouth area?
Open HRM’s collection schedule tool or HFX Recycles and enter the exact civic number and street. Dartmouth is in Area II, but the address result supplies the actual collection date.
Is HRM garbage collection cancelled today?
Check the dated HRM Service Updates notice and HFX Recycles alert. Other closures do not automatically cancel waste collection. Call 311 when the notice does not clearly cover your address.
How do I check garbage collection in Dartmouth tomorrow?
Enter the civic address in HRM’s schedule tool, select tomorrow’s date, confirm the waste streams and review current service alerts. Have permitted material ready before 7 a.m.
What time must Dartmouth waste be at the curb?
Collection can start at 7 a.m. Material may be placed outside from 7 p.m. the night before. Remove uncollected material by 9 p.m. unless HRM provides recovery instructions.
How many garbage bags can a Dartmouth home put out?
An eligible single home, semi, rowhouse or townhouse can place six bags, including one black privacy bag. A two-to-six-unit building can place four bags per unit, including one privacy bag per unit.
Is the green cart collected weekly in Dartmouth during summer 2026?
Yes. HRM confirmed weekly green-cart collection from June 29 through October 2, 2026. Garbage and recycling continue on their address-specific cycles.
Can compostable plastic bags go in the Dartmouth green cart?
No. HRM prohibits plastic of every kind in the green cart, including products labelled compostable or biodegradable. Use paper bags, newspaper or boxboard.
Can I put a mattress or couch out with Dartmouth garbage?
An eligible single-unit property can place one qualifying bulky item on its garbage date, up to 200 kg and 8 feet long. A two-to-six-unit building can place two items for the entire building.
What should I do when Dartmouth collection is missed?
Confirm the address date, scheduled stream, set-out time, service notice, bag limits and rejection sticker. Call 311 with the address and details and ask whether the route is delayed or the material was rejected.
Is the Halifax garbage collection schedule the same as Dartmouth?
Both use HRM’s address tool and regional sorting rules, but Halifax is listed in Area I and Dartmouth in Area II. Collection weekdays and holiday replacements must be checked for the exact civic address.
Your Next Dartmouth Collection Step
Search the civic address, confirm today’s or tomorrow’s waste stream and check the current HRM alert. Prepare only permitted material, keep garbage and recycling separated and have everything accessible before 7 a.m.