What Goes in Your Grey Box
All paper products and clean plastic bags should be placed in a clean untied grocery bag. This keeps the items dry and prevents them from blowing away. Place the bags inside the grey box.
PLASTIC BAGS
- Grocery, milk, and bread bags, dry cleaning bags, the plastic packaging from toilet tissue, paper towels and pop cases
- Remove receipts, stuff into one bag and tie handles.
- Plastic film like grocery and milk bags, frozen vegetable bags can be bagged together.
Place all clean bags into an empty bag, tie shut and place inside your grey box.
Do not include: cereal/cracker box liners, plastic food wrap (e.g. saran wrap) zipper storage bags, diapers, meat/bacon packaging, "crinkly" outer packaging (e.g. pasta wrappers), pet food bags or bubble wrap
RECYCLABLE PAPER
- White paper, newspapers, glossy magazines, catalogues, colour flyers, colour paper, envelopes, paperbacks, hardcover books (remove cover and discard), envelopes (window can be left in) telephone books, shredded paper.
All paper products should be placed in a clean untied grocery bag. This keeps the paper dry and from blowing away. Place bags inside the grey box.
Do not include: gift wrapping paper
CORRUGATED CARDBOARD
- Shipping, appliance, furniture and pizza boxes (cleaned of excess food)
- Corrugated cardboard needs to be flattened with the staples and tape removed, and tied in bundles smaller than 3'x 2'x 8". There is a six-bundle limit per collection.
Do not include: wax coated boxes or soiled pizza boxes.
NOTE: If the cardboard is not collected by 4 p.m. call 613-546-0000
BOXBOARD & POLYCOAT
- Polycoat - Rinse and flatten milk cartons, juice cartons and Tetra-Pak juice boxes. Place together with boxboard.
- Boxboard - cereal, pop, frozen food boxes, cookie, tissue, detergent, cracker, shoe and gift boxes, paper egg cartons, and paper towel tubes, fibre milk and juice cartons, and tetra paks, greeting cards, drink trays.
Flatten and bundle or place inside a grocery bag. Place bundle or bag inside grey box.
NOT SURE IF AN ITEM IS RECYCLABLE?
The following list will help you decide which materials can be recycled and which should be placed in the garbage. Putting garbage in with your recyclable material can result in your Grey Box being left behind.
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IRREGULAR RECYCLABLE ITEMS |
ITEMS THAT ARE NOT RECYCLABLE |
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FIBRES |
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Popsicle wrappers |
Wax paper food wrap |
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PLASTICS |
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Milk bags & pouches |
Chip bags |
