What Can I Recycle?

Would you like a good reminder of what you can recycle? Check out our What Goes Where? guide! All the materials listed below can be recycled in:

• Blue Bags (for house and duplexes)
• Blue Bins (for apartments and condominiums)
• Recycling Depots located throughout Edmonton

Please don't recycle anything that isn't listed. Unwanted materials increase costs and can put the health of workers at risk.

Paper - all types including:

• Newspaper and inserts, magazines, catalogues
• White writing and computer paper
• Christmas cards, non-foil gift wrap
• Junk mail, paper bags, envelopes, paper egg cartons, paperback and hard cover books (remove hard cover), phone books
        
  *Shredded paper is only accepted in the low grade paper bin at the community recycling depots.

Cardboard

• Flattened corrugated cardboard boxes
• Flattened cereal and food boxes (remove and discard liner)
• Juice boxes
• Milk cartons (rinse with cold water and flatten)
• Flattened shoe boxes and brown paper bags  

Metals (no loose lids, trap inside can or discard)

• Clean tin cans (soup, juice etc. )
• Aluminum containers (pie plates)
• Aluminum cans (beverages)
• Empty non-hazardous aerosol cans

Glass (empty and clean; discard lids, you do not have to remove labels)

• Jars (e. g. , pickle, jam)
• Bottles (e. g. , all beverages, ketchup)
  
  Note: Jars and bottles only. No ceramics, plate glass or mirror.

Plastics (types 1,2 4 & 5 - discard caps and lids; empty and rinse)

• Household cleaner bottles
• Shampoo and conditioner bottles (including similar personal care products)
• Vinegar bottles
• Plastic bags (all types including bread and dry cleaner bags)
• Pop and beverage bottles
• Milk jugs
• Detergent or fabric softener bottles 
• Margarine and yogurt containers
• Ice cream pails (remove metal handle)
• Vitamin bottles
• Windshield washer containers

For more information:

Telephone	In Edmonton: 311 Outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311
Email	wasteman@edmonton.ca