Organic Waste
We encourage residents to divert organic waste from our landfill.
Recycle your REAL Christmas tree
Drop off your real Christmas tree anytime between December 27, 2024 and January 30, 2025 at one of the bulk recycling locations:
- 20 Northlands Way NE - Northlands Co-op Recycling Depot
- 240 Kipling Street SE - Kipling Street Recycling Depot
- 3292 Dunmore Rd SE - Southwest corner of the Medicine Hat Mall parking lot
Prior to drop off, please remove all plastic bags, stands, tinsel and decorations.
Please note that artificial trees cannot be recycled in this program nor in the blue recycling cart program. Artificial trees that can no longer be used or donated should be discarded in the garbage. Refer to www.medicinehat.ca/recycle for more information.
Alternatively, you can take your real Christmas Tree to the compost facility, or your artificial tree to the landfill - both are located within the Waste Management Facility.
We'll recycle the organic materials from your yard into an all-natural soil additive. Learn how to participate.
Backyard composting provides an almost constant source of free fertilizer and soil conditioner.
Select residents across 15 waste collection routes will participate in the food waste collection pilot program.
Medicine Hat residents have the option of subscribing for seasonal yard waste collection. Similar to the grey household waste carts, a green vented 95-gallon organic waste cart designed specifically for organic materials is used for this program.
Recycling your own yard waste into useable compost is easy, cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly. The Composting page offers step-by-step instructions to do it yourself. Or, consider purchasing the SureGrow Compost produced by the City of Medicine Hat. SureGrow is made, under strict environmental controls, out of the yard waste collected from the seasonal yard waste collection program.