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Residential recycling and disposal search tool

Bakery boxes and bags

Cake and bakery boxes

Doughnut box

Dessert bag

Cupcake box

Dessert box

Examples of bakery boxes and bags

  • Cake and cupcake boxes
  • Cookie boxes
  • Donut boxes
  • Bread bags
  • Dessert bags
  • Pie box

How to dispose

There are two ways to dispose of bakery boxes and bags depending on how dirty they are.

Clean boxes and bags

  • Put into your blue cart or take to a community recycling depot

Put empty and clean bakery boxes and bags:

  • Into your blue cart for recycling
  • Take to a community recycling depot

Food-dirty boxes and bags

  • Put into your green cart

Put food-dirty bakery boxes and bags (food chunks, icing-covered etc.) into your green cart for composting

Special instructions

Put leftover crumbs and food into the compost.

Map of community recycling depots