Single stream recycling allows you to mix your paper and container items in one recycling box.
What goes in your Blue Box?
- See the Waste Management Guide for the latest details.
- Learn more about blue box recycling.
Where can I get a Blue Box?
Additional Blue Boxes may be purchased at various locations in Peel, or bring in your broken blue box for a replacement.
Brampton | Caledon | Mississauga
Blue Box Recycling Tips
Follow these tips to prevent your Blue Box items from taking flight at the curb on windy days.
- Crush large plastic bottles and beverage cartons to save space
- Don’t overload your recycling boxes. Pick up additional boxes if you need the room one of the Brampton, Caledon or Mississauga locations.
- Flatten small cardboard boxes (e.g. cereal or tissue boxes), and place securely in box.
- Fold all aluminum trays.
- On windy days, consider putting your recycling boxes out for collection in the morning, rather than the night before your collection day.
- Place all plastic bags in one tied plastic bag.
- Place large flattened cardboard securely underneath or between your recycling boxes, or place flattened cardboard inside one cardboard box.
- Place heavier items on top of lighter items
- Stack your recycling boxes to prevent papers from blowing away
Recycling Bags - Another Option
If you have more Blue Box items than your recycling boxes can handle, place the additional items in a transparent (clear or tinted blue) plastic bag. Place the bag on top of, or beside, your recycling boxes.
Reminder - The bag you use may not be larger than 66 cm (26 in.) wide and 90 cm (36 in.) in height and cannot exceed a weight of 20 kg (44 lb.)
Schools
Recycling goes beyond household collection. Download a recycling poster (PDF 1 MB, 1 page) designed for elementary and high schools that highlights common waste items and what should – and shouldn’t – be disposed of in recycling containers.
Did You Know?
Nine recycled 2-litre pop bottles can be turned into one XL polyester t-shirt.
It takes 240 recycled plastic jugs to make one plastic Muskoka chair
Fibres from recycled milk and juice cartons can be used to make tissues, paper towels, paper bags, and office supplies
What Happens to Your Recyclables?
Once your recyclable items are collected, they are processed at Peel's new Integrated Waste Management Facility, located on Torbram Road just south of Highway 407.
This new facility, one of the largest in Canada, is equipped with the latest sorting technology that can separate your recyclable materials right at the plant. It lets us do the work for you.