BLUEBOX SCHEDULE
To view the blue box schedule for September to February 2010, click on the following link: Blue Box Schedule
Blue Box Acceptable Items
NOTE: If an item is not listed in this chart don’t put it in your
Blue Box, put it in your Garbage.
(Except Hazardous Waste (including batteries & needles)
The Township also does not collect tires, car parts, oil filters, grass clippings and yard waste)
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Items
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Comments
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Glass Bottles & Jars
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rinsed with lids and labels removed
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Metal Food & Beverage Cans
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rinsed with labels removed
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Aluminium Pie Plates & Foil
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please wash before recycling
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Rigid Plastic Containers with a 1 or 2 recycling symbol on the bottom
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rinse, remove labels, caps & lids. Items without these symbols are garbage and are not recycled.
**Clam Shell, plastic egg containers or take-out containers are no longer accepted in your blue box even though they have a #1 or a #2 on the bottom
**No Juice or Milk Cartons
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Newspaper
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bundle & tie OR place in brown paper bag. Do not use plastic bags, as the bags themselves are not recyclable
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Corrugated Cardboard
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flatten & bundle 18"x18"x18"
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Boxboard
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includes cereal, shoe or tissue boxes, etc.
NO Pizza Boxes! flatten & bundle OR fill one boxboard box with the rest |
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Mixed Papers
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includes office paper, cash receipts & rolls, junk mail, magazines, telephone books, hard or soft cover books.
bundle & tie OR place in brown paper bag |
Remember the Beer Store takes back all wine, beer and spirit containers purchased at the LCBO and Ontario Wineries for a refund
