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

You can mix papers and containers in one Blue Box.

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

Blue Box Acceptable Items

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Blue Box acceptable materials flyer is also available in: French  580KB,  Spanish  110KB, Polish 187KB, Punjabi  132KB, and Simplified Chinese  232KB.

• Aluminum foil (Aluminum foil, aluminum pie plates & baking containers)
• Boxed beverage containers (Tetra Paks®, juice & soup boxes, gable top containers such as milk & juice cartons)
• Glass bottles & jars (Clear or coloured, food & beverage glass containers)
• Metal food & beverage containers
• Plastic bottles (Water, pop, juice, dish detergent, bleach, laundry detergent & shampoo bottles; flatten 15 L water jugs; caps go in garbage)
• Plastic tubs & lids (Cottage cheese, cream cheese, dips, ice cream, margarine, & yogurt tubs)
• Books (Hard & soft covered books & telephone books)
• Boxboard (Cereal, detergent, tissue boxes, etc.; flatten; liners go in garbage)
• Fine paper (Computer paper, writing paper, envelopes, newspapers, inserts & flyers, paper bags)
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Corrugated cardboard (Tie in bundles no larger than 90cm x 90cm x 30cm (3 ft x 3 ft x 1 ft))

Information about the deposit return program for liquor containers.

Not Accepted (these items go in the Garbage)

• Plastic bottle caps & coffee cup lids
• Plastic cutlery, straws, plastic plates & cups
• Plastic wrap and bubble wrap
• Plastic bags, baggies, & liner bags (cereal bags)
• Styrofoam
• Black & clear plastic take-out containers
• Clear plastic “clam shell” containers
• Single-serve plastic food containers (yogurt, cheese & cracker containers)
• Gift wrap, wrapping paper, ribbons & bows
• Juice pouches
• Garden hoses
• Ceramics & drinking glasses
• Window glass
• Hangers (metal, plastic, wood)
• Wooden food crates
• Light bulbs (not CFLs)
• Empty aerosol cans or paint cans
• Wooden food crates