What can go in your blue cart
Your blue cart is for acceptable household paper, cardboard and container packaging.
It is important to recycle the right things in your blue cart and community recycling depots, and properly prepare your materials.
When you put in items that don't belong, it can cause injuries to workers and costly shutdowns at our recycling sorting facility.
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Use What Goes Where to find the proper recycling and disposal answers.
Yes. Put these items into your blue cart
Stretchy plastic bags - must be bundled
- Plastic grocery and shopping bags
- Bread and produce bags
- Fruit and vegetable bags
- Bubble wrap and shipping bags
- Plastic wrapping used on toilet paper, paper towel and water bottle cases
Bag Tip:
- If the plastic bag/wrap stretches (like a grocery bag) it's recyclable; if it does not stretch, is crinkly or tears (like a chip bag or cellophane), it's not recyclable.
Rigid plastic containers (bottles, tubs, jugs)
- Milk jugs
- Beverage, pop and juice bottles
- Yogurt tubs
- Clamshell container
- Cookie trays and party trays
- Takeout cups and containers
- Laundry detergent containers
- Body lotion containers (no tubes)
- Shampoo and conditioner bottles (no hand pumps)
- Plastic lids larger than 7.5 cm (three inches) in diameter
Paper and cardboard
TIP: Flatten boxes to make more space in your bin.
- Cardboard boxes and shipping boxes
- Office paper, letters and envelopes
- Flyers, magazines, brochures and newspapers
- Toilet and paper towel tubes
- Pizza boxes (some grease is ok)
- Tissue boxes
- Cereal, cracker and pasta boxes
- Paper gift wrap (no foil) and paper bags
- Soup and beverage cartons (e.g.Tetra Pak® packages)
- Ice cream, milk cartons and juice boxes
- Shredded paper (put in a clear bag and tied closed)
Takeout packaging
Remove all food scraps into the compost before recycling the empty packaging.
- Paper coffee cups and fountain pop cups (no lid)
- Burger boxes and French fry boxes
- Fast food paper bags
- Paper and plastic takeout containers
- Clamshell containers
- Pizza boxes
- Paper food trays
- Drink trays
Metal food containers
- Food cans for soup, chili, vegetable, fruit and tuna
- Pet food cans
- Pop cans
- Tin foil (crumple into ball)
- Foil takeout containers and pie plates
- Cookie and coffee tins
- Stove liners
- Metal lids larger than 5 cm (two inches) in diameter
Glass containers
- Glass food jars for jam, salsa, pickles, baby food etc.
- Pasta sauce jars
- Cooking oil bottles
- Beverage bottles
- Condiment jars
- Canning and mason jars
- Cosmetic jars
Have other items to dispose?
Items for blue cart
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Items for black cart
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Items for green cart
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