Blue Box material is collected every week on your collection day.

Use Blue Boxes only. Recyclables in plastic bags, cardboard boxes, grocery bins, laundry baskets, milk crates, or garbage/recycling cans (with or without wheels) will not be collected.

Place acceptable materials loose in your Blue Box. Rinse all containers and ensure they are clean. Papers can be bundled and tied or placed loose, but no plastic bags.

Acceptable Blue Box Items

Blue Box acceptable materials 580KB

Blue Box acceptable materials flyer is also available in: French  731KB,  Spanish  728KB, Polish 777KB, Punjabi  1MB, and Simplified Chinese  981KB.

Starting April 1 2013, you can place these new items in your Blue Box:

• Clear plastic “clam shell” containers
• Black & clear plastic take-out containers
• Plastic plant pots & trays
• Plastic plates, cups & coffee cup lids (no cutlery)
• Single-serve plastic food containers (no film or foil)
• Cardboard cans
• Empty metal paint cans (lids removed)

You may continue to place these materials in your Blue Box:

• Aluminum foil (aluminum foil, aluminum pie plates & baking trays)
• Boxboard (cereal, detergent, tissue boxes, etc.; flatten; liners go in garbage)
• Boxed beverage containers (Tetra Paks®, juice & soup boxes, gable top containers such as milk & juice cartons)
• Corrugated cardboard (tie in bundles no larger than 90 cm x 90cm x 30cm (3 ft x 3 ft x 1 ft))
• Glass bottles & jars (clear or coloured, food & beverage glass containers)
• Magazines & Books (hard & soft covered books)
• Metal food & beverage containers
• Plastic bottles, tubs & lids (beverage, soap, cleaning bottles, caps go in garbage; cottage cheese, cream cheese, dips, margarine, yogurt tubs & lids; maximum size 4 litre (1 gallon))
• Newspapers & flyers

Not Accepted (these items go in the Garbage)

• Plastic bottle caps
• Plastic cutlery (including plastic "compostable" cutlery)
• Plastic straws
• Plastic wrap and bubble wrap
• Plastic bags, baggies, & liner bags (cereal bags)
• Styrofoam
• Wrapping paper, ribbons & bows
• Juice or drinking pouches
• Garden hoses
• Ceramics & drinking glasses
• Window glass
• Hangers (metal, plastic, wood)
• Light bulbs (not CFLs)
• Wooden food crates
• Disposable furnace filters