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Residential recycling and disposal search tool

Six-pack plastic lids

Hard plastic can holders

  • Take to a special drop-off location

Take usable beer can holders (also known as PakTech can holders) back to a Calgary brewery to be reused again. Options include:

  • Tool Shed Brewing (4 and 6 can holders)
  • Annex Ales (4 and 6 can holders)
  • Village Brewery (4 and 6 can holders)
  • Other Paktech recycling locations (including broken six-pack and four-pack beverage lids)

Why can’t this be recycled in the blue cart?

Even if they have a recycling symbol on it, this type of can holder is incompatible with the sorting machines and ends up contaminating the other recyclables.