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Cardboard boxes

How to recycle cardboard boxes

Cardboard boxes (flatten)

Cardboard boxes (flatten)

Packaging boxes (flatten)

Packaging inserts

Cardboard boxes (flatten)

Examples of boxes

  • Cardboard boxes
  • Moving boxes and shipping boxes 
  • Packaging boxes and inserts
  • Drink flat trays
  • TV boxes

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

Put empty and clean cardboard boxes:

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

Remove any plastic windows and wrapping from the box and put in garbage. Bundle with other plastic bags for recycling.

Special instructions

  • Remove as much tape and labels as possible from the box and put the tape in the garbage.
  • Flatten cardboard and fold or cut as needed - all material must be inside blue cart with the lid closed.
  • Take oversized cardboard pieces to a community recycling depot.

Map of community recycling depots

For businesses

If you are a business with this item, please see our Business Waste resources.

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