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New tool will send you reminders about garbage day via Twitter, email, phone

[ ![](/legacy/01651.jpg) ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/green-bins.jpg) Delivery crew load green bins into trailers back in September 2009. [ Photo from the City of Ottawa. ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenbinottawa/3994653264/in/photostream) The City of Ottawa has launched an incredibly useful tool that will remind you when to put out your garbage, recycling and compost. ...

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Cool tool: Downloadable garbage/recycling collection calendars

[ ![Garbage Day](/legacy/00772.jpg) ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/xiaozhuli/5751735759/) I'm sure some of this stuff could have been recycled. Photo by [ Zhu ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/xiaozhuli/5751735759/) . Saw this recently on Shawn Hooper’s blog : As my contribution to 2010′s Open Data Ottawa Hackfest, I converted the City of Ottawa’s Garbage Collection Calendar into a open format (iCalendar) so that the schedule could be used for purposes like being imported into your favourite calendaring application such as MS Outlook, Google Calendar, or even your smartphone. ...