Ponoka shifts green cart pickup to biweekly schedule in November
The Town of Ponoka is moving curbside compost collection to a winter schedule, with changes also coming to Waste Transfer Station hours.
The Town of Ponoka has announced that green cart pickup will switch to a biweekly winter schedule starting in the first week of November, continuing every second week until the end of April 2027.
Acceptable items for the green bins include kitchen food waste, coffee grounds, cooking oil, eggshells, poultry bones, shellfish, tea bags, certified compostable containers, food-soiled newsprint and cardboard, facial tissue, food-soiled paper towels, napkins and leaves. The town is asking residents not to place plastics, recyclables or household garbage in the carts, specifically citing diapers, tin cans, wood chunks and plastic bags as items that do not belong.
Alongside the green cart changes, the Waste Transfer Station will move to winter hours of Tuesday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and will be closed on statutory holidays.
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