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Single-serving food packets

How to dispose of single-serving food packets

Tea bag packets

Hot chocolate packets

Oatmeal packets

Powder drink packets

Examples of single serve food packets

  • Hot chocolate powder packets
  • Oatmeal packets
  • Coffee, cappuccino and latte powder packets
  • Iced tea powder packets
  • Tea bag packet
  • Vitamin and energy drink powder packets (e.g. Ener-C, Gatorade, Crystal light)
  • Nutritional powder packets

  • Put into your black cart

Put individual-sized serving food packets into your black cart as garbage.

Why can't this be recycled/composted?

These individual serving packets are often a multi-material made of a mix of paper, foil and/or plastic that cannot be easily separated for recycling and are not suitable for composting.​​​​​

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