Blue cart recycling
How to bundle stretchy plastic bags
Get your home set up to make it easier to bag your stretchy plastic bags – here are a few ideas:
- Hang a hook inside a cabinet door to hold bags.
- Hang an empty bag on a door handle.
- Clip an empty bag to the side of your indoor recycling bin.
- Use a bag dispenser to store your bags.
Fill the bag with all your stretchy bags and plastic wrap. Once it’s full, tie closed and put in your blue cart, then start again. Bundling your bags ensures they can be properly sorted at the recycling facility.
What can go in your Blue Cart
Find your pickup day
Print a calendar
- Type your address in the search box
- Select Get a calendar
- You can print a calendar; or
- Add an online calendar
Sign up for free reminders
- Type your address in search box
- Select Get a reminder
- Chose type of notice
- Add your contact details
Using your Blue Cart
Customer self-service
Report a missed collection
Request additional carts
Please call 311 to review the options available to you.
Request cart for a new home
Report a missing or damaged cart
Please call 311 to report a broken or missing cart.
For more details, see Replacing Your Cart.
About Blue Cart Program
Who receives a cart?
We provide blue carts to single family homes up to four units, as long as they are not part of an apartment or condominium.
| Monthly Rate | 2020/2021 |
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Blue Cart Fee ($ per 30 days) |
$8.80 |
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Your monthly cart program fees are not a "per-collection" fee but cover all the components of the residential cart programs, including providing carts to Calgarians, pickup from your home, sorting and processing of material as well as education and program support.
To learn more, visit Residential Waste Rates.
How recycling works
Through our Blue Cart program and community recycling depots, we've recycled more than 700 million kilograms over the last 11 years.
When your items are picked up from your blue cart, they go to a recycling sorting facility. People and machines sort all the mixed recyclables into different types of materials, bale them and ship them to markets where they will be made into new products.
In 2017, some items were impacted by the changes in the Chinese recycling sector and put into storage. In 2018, new manufacturers were found in other markets to accept recyclables as well as to clear out the backlog of stored items from 2017.
