Simcoe County has a two-stream Blue Box Program. Paper / Paper Fibres are to be sorted and placed in a gray or blue box and containers are to be placed in a separate Blue Box.
Acceptable Containers for the Blue Box for "Containers" are:
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Containers:
- Glass Bottles & Jars
- Empty Paint Cans
- Food & Beverage Cans
- Plastic Bottles, Jugs, Tubs & Lids marked:
#1, 2, 4, 5 & 7
- Aluminum Plates & Foil
- Spiral-Wound Containers (frozen juice, dough, some chips & nuts,
hot chocolate and Iced Tea)
- Empty Aerosol Cans (shaving cream, hair spray & mousse, non-stick
spray & paint)
- Gable Top Containers (milk & juice cartons)
- Tetra-Pak Containers (drinking boxes, broth & wine boxes)
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Do NOT include:
- Light Bulbs
- Drinking Glasses, Window Glass & Ceramics
- Plastic Toys
- Clam Shell Packaging (baked goods & produce)
- Plastic Bags & Film, Wrappers
- Flower Pots
- Styrofoam
- Unmarked Bottles
- Motor Oil Bottles
- Plastic Jugs over 4 Litres (1 Gallon)
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Chris - some local residents here including ourselves use, or used to use, cardboard boxes (ones we carried our groceries home from the store in) for our recycles ..... now the town has stopped that because some people were mixing garbage with the recycles in the cardboard boxes.
Two stream re-cycling? Something new again Chris! Our recycle guy is very picky about not taking those styrofoam containers.
Hi Chris - Until the last few years, Toronto had two stream recycling as well with gray and blue boxes. Now the recycling is placed in those large blue bins.
Kathy, sorting is a very important part of recycling. That said, we need to do whatever we can to encourage re-using also.
Al and Peggy, we have received a number of sticky notes telling us that we are not recycling properly. But we are getting better over time =)
Marc, you have the numbers to allow sortation on site. I saw a video on Toronto City waste management. It was very impressive.