What goes in your blue bin
Blue bin recyclable:
Glass
Empty bottles and jars
Metal
Metal cans
Soft drink cans
Jar lids
Aluminum containers (clean or food soiled)
Aluminum foil (clean or food soiled)
Empty paint cans with lids removed
Empty aerosol cans (hairspray, paint, whipping cream)
Spiral-wound canisters with metal ends (frozen concentrate cans, potato chip tube)
Plastic
Food and household containers numbers 1 to 7
Please note : Rigid #6 plastics such as yogurt cups and clear plastics are accepted, while expanded #6 such as Styrofoam are not accepted.
Take-out containers, bakery and produce containers (clam shells)
Pails (remove metal handle)
Planting trays
Flower pots
Single serve yogurt cups
Clear plastic egg cartons
Plastic bottles, jars and jugs
Tubs and tub lids (yogurt, ice cream, margarine containers)
Cartons
Milk and juice cartons
Drink boxes
Soup boxes
Frozen meal trays and take-out containers
Empty Alcohol Containers
Empty wine, beer and spirit containers greater than 100 ml purchased in Ontario must be returned, for refund at The Beer Store.
Non-recyclable
Place these items in your regular garbage.
Glass
Ceramics such as dishes, cups and pottery
Other glass such as drinking glasses, window glass, light bulbs, and mirrors
CFL bulbs (compact fluorescent) can be returned to a Take it Back! partner or a Household Hazardous Waste Depot
Metal
Metal clothes hangers
Scrap metal
Chip bags
Plastic
#6 expanded polystyrene (such as styrofoam containers and packaging, coffee cup lids, meat trays and foam clam shells)
All plastic bags
Hard plastics such as dishes, cups, toys, make-up jars, laundry baskets
Motor oil containers