Waste Characterization

If you are a business requesting permission to bring contaminated waste to the Essex-Windsor Regional Landfill, there are specific protocols that must be followed.

• All information requests on the submitted form must be submitted before the review process will start.
• You must have been awarded a contact for hauling contaminated waste. If you have not been awarded a contract, your submission will be rendered invalid and not processed.
• Second, a Waste Characterization Form must be completed (see below). 
• Please download the fillable Waste Characterization Form, and when completed email the form back to ask@ewswa.org with "Waste Characterization Form" in the subject line. 
• If you have any questions, please call 519-776-7941 and ask for the Manager or Supervisor at the Essex-Windsor Regional Landfill. 

Policies and Procedures

1. Allow for a minimum of 72 hours (business days) after submission for a response.
2. Essex-Windsor Regional Landfill is licensed to receive domestic, commercial, nonhazardous solid industrial and agricultural waste only.
3. All waste hauled from the City of Windsor is to be delivered to the Essex-Windsor Regional Landfill via the designated haul route. (Highway 3 to the Arner Townline, south on the Arner then west on County Rd. 18 to the landfill). Must follow the same route back to Windsor.
4. All vehicles hauling waste must be licensed as part of a waste management system certificate or provisional certificate of approval from the Ministry of the Environment, issued pursuant to Section 27 of the Environmental Protection Act.