There are changes coming to household hazardous waste collection at the Thompson landfill. 

Kacper Antoszewski, the City of Thompson’s communications officer, spoke to Arctic Radio News and said that the waste disposal grounds on October 19th. He said that the staff will be spending the day in regulatory training so they can offer year-round disposal of hazardous waste. 

Antoszewski said that following the completion of the training, household hazardous waste can be dropped off every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 

When winter hours begin on November 1st, the landfill will accept the household hazardous waste on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:00am until 5:45pm.