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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Who to Contact

Barrie Environmental Centre
272 Ferndale Drive North
(705) 739-4219

Do you own business offering alternative disposal options to Barrie residents? Want your business added to this page as an alternative option? Please contact RethinkWaste@barrie.ca

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Alternative Disposal Options

Looking for another way to get rid of your unwanted items? The following links provide information about locations you can take materials for reuse, recycling, and proper disposal.

This webpage includes some government-funded companies/not-for-profits and, in support of local business development, Barrie-based companies. The linked websites are not maintained or monitored by City staff. Links are provided for convenience and do not necessarily imply endorsement by the City.

Diapers

Cloth diapers are an alternative to disposable diapers. Search online to check out diaper services.

Electronics

The City works to keep illegal donation bins for clothing and electronics out of the community. Free electronics recycling is available to Barrie residents at the City of Barrie's Environmental Centre (272 Ferndale Drive North). Visit Electronic Recycle for a list of acceptable items. Alternative options:

Furniture and Building Materials

Residents may use any of the following options for disposing of these items:

  • Participate in the annual New to Me Day held on the second Saturday of June each year (residents must remove items that are not collected by 9 p.m. the day of the event)
  • Contact local private haulers to receive or collect reusable items.
  • Consider donating items through local charitable re-use stores and pick-up services. (Not all charities accept furniture and building materials.)
Hazardous Waste

The City of Barrie Household Hazardous Waste Depot , is open every Saturday from 8:30am–3:30pm at the Environmental Centre (272 Ferndale Drive North). The depot is FREE to all Barrie residents. Alternative options:

Mobility/Assistive and Healthcare Devices

Residents are encouraged to consider donating mobility and assistive devices such as walkers, canes, and bath chairs, to local charitable re-use stores, and pick-up services, and classified services.

Refrigerator / Freezer

The Barrie Landfill Site can receive and decommission CFC-containing appliances. Alternative disposal options:

Reusable Clothing & Textiles

Curbside Textile Collection

​Donate your used clothing, linens, shoes, etc. during the week of September 12 to 16, 2022. Look up your textile collection day (note that it will not be the same as your regular collection day for garbage, recycling and green bin material) on the Recycling Rewards website. Place your items in a bag and put it out on the curb on your textile collection day no later than 7 a.m., rain or shine. The items will be collected by Recycling Rewards trucks by 5 p.m. on your textile collection day.​



Textile Collection Bins ​

There are textile collection bins at the following City facilities. View the list of accepted items. 100% of net proceeds combat homelessness and addiction, and support mental health in the community.

  • City Operations Centre, 165 Ferndale Drive North
  • Barrie Wastewater Maintenance Facility, 167 Bradford Street
  • Sadlon Arena, 555 Bayview Drive
  • Barrie Public Library (Painswick branch), 48 Dean Avenue
  • Allandale Recreation Centre, 190 Bayview Drive

Recycling Rewards at 1-866-927-3873 or  info@recyclingrewards.com if you have questions about the collection bins.

Charitable Stores

Residents are encouraged to consider donating used clothing through local charitable re-use stores and pick-up services.

Sharps & Pharmaceuticals

Syringes, lancets, needles and pharmaceuticals are accepted at the City of Barrie Household Hazardous Waste Depot. The Depot is open every Saturday from 8:30am-3;30pm at the Environmental Centre (272 Ferndale Drive North). The depot is FREE to all Barrie residents. Alternative option:

Tires

On-road tires that are off the rim are accepted at the landfill site at no charge through the Ontario Tire Stewardship Program. Tires on the rim have a charge associated with them. Bicycle tires are not accepted for recycling. For online for alternate disposal options.​

Other Donations​

Glowing Hearts

This local charitable organization is committed to facilitating hope and hope in the community. Glowing Hearts helps provide people with essential needs, such as food, clothing, healthcare items, baby needs, school su​pplies and linens/housewares.

New to Me Day 

​Do some de-cluttering and gather up items around your home that are no longer used. New to Me Day (formerly Free Goods Exchange Day) resembles a garage sale, but without the money or hassle. It happens the second Saturday each June (but was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic). 

Everything you place at the end of your driveway or at the edge of your lawn is FREE on New to Me Day. Print out and attach the New to Me Day poster and anyone can come by and take the items away. Because there is no money exchanged, you don’t have to stick around. You can simply place your stuff at the curb and go!

Anything that does not find a new home must be taken back in by 9pm that day as there will be no municipal collection. If you need to get rid of items, visit barrie.ca/CurbsideCollection for more information on how you can properly do so.


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