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, "crinky" 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".

Remove staples and tape. Flatten and bundle. (Note: there is a six-bundle limit per collection.) Place beside your grey box.

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. Excess cardboard can be placed next to recycling containers, only if they are bundled and tied.

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. Remember "Put Waste In Its Place". Putting garbage in with your recyclable material can result in your Grey Box being left behind.

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