Green grass and trees

Climate Change and Environment

Review the Town of Perth initiatives implemented in the past few years, to help address climate change challenges.

The Climate Change Advisory Panel (CCAP), a Committee of Council, reviews and make recommendations to Committee of the Whole by thinking globally and acting locally in reference to our local climate change concerns. The CCAP provides content for "The Green Scene" which provides tips on how to live greener.

Climate Change Advisory Panel meetings are held once a month on the third (3) Thursday in our Council Chambers (electronic participation is also possible). Meetings start at 1:00 pm. You can view meeting dates, agendas, and minutes here.

Environmental Services Department

The Town of Perth's Environmental Services department looks after several areas, including utility, transportation, and waste management, and fleet.

  • Transportation services include the maintenance, repair, rehabilitation and replacement of roads, traffic and street lighting, municipal parking lots and street parking, and winter control operations, storm sewers, and tree maintenance
  • Utility services include the operations and maintenance, rehabilitation and replacement of waterworks and sanitary sewer networks. Also included are the operations of water and wastewater treatment facilities.
  • Environmental services include waste management including diversion, disposal, recycling, composting, and curbside collection of waste.
  • Fleet services include the procurement, maintenance of all municipal fleet items including road maintenance and emergency equipment.
  • Please call Grant Machan, Director of Environmental Services, at 267-331, extension 2233, email gmachan@perth.ca or visit the back reception area at Town Hall for any of the above listed services.

The Green Journey

In Perth, being green is not just about lawns, parks and trees. It's about becoming an environmentally friendly and eco-efficient leader.

  • A driving force behind the efforts to make Perth green is ecoPerth, an award-winning not-for-profit group of volunteers taking action on climate change.
  • The group looks for "win-win" projects that make sense for economic convenience, aesthetic or other reasons, but which also happen to have an environmental co-benefit.

To appreciate the "greenness" of Perth and the beautification as a result of efforts by the community and environmentally conscious groups such as ecoPerth, take an entertaining and leisurely walk through the parks and forests of Perth.

 

Additional resources:

Idling of Vehicles

By-Law No. 4091 - A By-law to control the idling of vehicles in the Town of Perth

By-Law No. 4091-1 - A By-law to reduce the idling of vehicles in Perth

Composting Garbage and Recycling
This Lanark County Organic Waste Report notes that Perth is the only municipality (in Lanark County) with a green bin collection program for food waste is Perth. For more information, go to 

Garbage and Recycling

Contact Us

Town of Perth, Town Hall, 80 Gore Street East, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1H9, Telephone: (613) 267-3311, Fax: (613) 267-5635