What can I recycle?
BEVERAGE
CONTAINERS
PAPER
CARDBOARD
Juice, water, and pop bottles
(plastic or glass)
Paper – ledger, printer, fax,
copy (white, coloured, glossy)
Juice and pop cans
Newspaper and inserts
Carton-based packages (e.g.
Tetra Pak™ juice boxes)
File folders and invoices
Milk jugs or cartons
Other glass or can beverage
containers
All containers you pay a
deposit on.
NO coffee cups
Envelopes, magazines, and
books
Phone books and directories
Shredded paper (must be
bagged)
Cardboard boxes
Post-It notes/posters
cards, non-foil gift wrap, paper
bags, egg cartons
Flatten Cardboard
NO carbon paper, paper
towels, or mixed metal and
paper
GLASS
LIGHT METAL
PLASTICS
Film plastic (e.g. shopping
bags, trash bags (any colour),
zippered food bags, clean
cling wrap, skid wraps, bubble
wrap)
Plastic containers (e.g. bleach
bottles, vitamin bottles,
windshield washer fluid
containers, ketchup and soya
sauce bottles,
shampoo/conditioner bottles,
margarine containers)
Non-hazardous lab plastics
(e.g. Pipettes)
All containers must be
rinsed
4
Non-hazardous lab
glassware
Aluminum (e.g. foil, pie
plates, food containers,
picture frames)
Steel (e.g. soup cans)
Empty non-hazardous
aerosol cans
All containers must be
rinsed
Tip: Plastics 1, 2, 4, and 5.
2
Window glass, windshields,
picture frame glass
Paper clips, wire coat hangers
Pens, mechanical pencils
(remove metal parts)
1
Glass jars and bottles
5