How to Sort Your Waste

Garbage

This item is garbage.

Put this item in your garbage (grey) cart.

Special disposal instructions or restrictions:

• Always double-bag these home health-care waste items before putting them in your garbage cart or garbage bag for collection:

• casts
• catheters
• colostomy bags
• dialysis waste (e.g. tubing, filters, disposable towels and sheets)
• disposable pads, gowns, gloves, masks and aprons
• gastric and nasal tubs
• IV bags and tubing
• soiled dressing and incontinence products
• sponges

• Never put home health-care waste in your recycling or organics cart.

Additional information:

• Excess Medical Waste

• If you have excess home health-care waste, you may qualify for the Region’s Medical Waste Exemption program. For more information call the Region of Peel’s Waste Line at 905-791-9499 (in Caledon toll-free at 905-584-2216) or email Waste Inquiry.

• Video: How to Dispose of Household Medical Waste

• Disposing of needles, prefilled pens, injection pens, auto-injectors
• Disposing of syringes and injectors
• Disposing of lancets