How to sort your waste
Special Services
- Ammunition (including bullets, shells and gunpowder)
This item can be hazardous to safety or health.
This item requires special handling by a professional consultant or organization.
To properly dispose of this item contact Peel Regional Police or the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).
- Asbestos
This item can be hazardous to safety or health.
This item requires special handling by a professional consultant or organization.
To properly dispose of this item contact a qualified asbestos removal consultant.
Additional information:
- Never attempt to remove asbestos from your home by yourself. Asbestos fibres that become airborne can cause serious illness.
- Dead animals
This item can be hazardous to safety or health.
Do not place a dead animal in your recycling or organics for collection.
This item has options for disposal.
Medium-sized or large dead animals on your property
Medium-sized or large dead animals such as deer, coyotes, skunks, and raccoons cannot be disposed of into your household waste.
- If you find an injured or dead animal in Brampton or Mississauga, call 3-1-1.
- If you find an injured or dead animal in Caledon, call 905-584-2272
Small dead animals on your property
Small dead animals such as a rats, mice, birds or squirrels can be disposed of into your household waste.
When disposing of a small dead animal:
- Never touch the animal with your bare hands. Wear disposable gloves and use a shovel or plastic bag to pick it up.
- Put the dead animal and any used gloves or bags inside 2 plastic bags (double bag). Put this bag in your garbage bin.
- Disinfect any tools that might have come into contact with the animal.
- Wash your hands after disposing of the dead animal.
On public property
- Public property is government-owned property and property that's available for public use such as parks, beaches, roads or sidewalks.
- If you find a dead wild animal in Brampton or Mississauga, call 3-1-1.
- If you find a dead wild animal in Caledon, call 905-584-2272.
- Trained Public Works or Animal Services staff responsible for disposing of dead wild animals on public property.
Additional information:
- Learn more about disposing of a disposing of a dead animal or fish on your property.
- Deposit return beer, cans, wine or spirits bottles
This item is recyclable.
This item has options for collection or disposal.
Option 1: The Beer Store
- Return all unbroken wine, alcohol, spirits, coolers, and beer bottles along with the packaging lids, bottle caps, plastic can rings, corks, and stoppers to your local Beer Store for a deposit refund. Drinking glasses or broken bottles are not accepted.
Option 2: Recycling
- Put this item in your recycling (blue) cart or a transparent clear or blue-tinted plastic bag.
- Make sure the item is clean and empty before placing it in your recycling.
- Put any foil or plastic seals, stoppers, corks, bottle caps, or tear-away tabs in the garbage.
Additional information:
- Learn more about The Beer Store deposit return or organizing a Bottle Drive at Better Returns.
- The lid on your recycling cart must be completely closed for collection. A closed lid helps prevent litter.
- If your recycling cart is full, put recyclables in a transparent clear or blue-tinted plastic bag. Place the bag outside of your recycling cart on your collection day.
- Recycling is mandatory in the Region of Peel.
- The Region collects unlimited amounts of recycling waste from the curb.
- Empty pesticide bags
This item is recyclable.
To properly dispose of this item visit CleanFARMS.
- Empty seed bags
This item is recyclable.
To properly dispose of this item visit CleanFARMS.
- Giant Hogweed or Wild Parsnip
This item can be hazardous to safety or health.
This item has options for disposal.
On private property
- Do not compost Giant Hogweed or Wild Parsnip.
- Do not put Giant Hogweed or Wild Parsnip in your yard waste or organics cart.
- Hire a lawn care professional to remove Giant Hogweed or Wild Parsnip.
On public property
- If you find Giant Hogweed or Wild Parsnip in a park or other area, call 3-1-1.
Additional information:
- Ministry of the Environment Wild Parsnip fact sheet (PDF).
- Ministry of the Environment Giant Hogweed fact sheet (PDF).
- Grass clippings
This item is not yard waste.
This item is not collected from the curb or accepted at Peel Community Recycling Centres.
Leave grass clippings on top of the grass after youve mowed the lawn. This is called grasscycling.
Grasscycling takes less effort, helps produce a healthy lawn and benefits you, your community and the environment.
Get grasscycling tips.
- Old blue boxes and green bins
Obsolete curbside collection receptacles like blue boxes and the 42 litre manually collected green bins can be delivered for free drop-off at any of the six Community Recycling Centres (CRCs). Or these recepatcles can be re-used, please see the following webpage: Old blue boxes
- Poison ivy and other invasive plants
This item can be hazardous to safety or health.
This item has options for disposal. It is NOT yard waste.
On private property
Place all invasive plants in a secured plastic bag, then put the bag in your garbage (grey) cart.
Invasive plants include:
- Poison ivy
- Garlic mustard
- Dog-strangling vine
- Manitoba maple
- Norway maple
- Buckthorn
- Japanese Knotweed
For more information, visit Ontario Invasive Plant Council.
Additional information:- Do not compost invasive plants.
- Do not put invasive plants in your yard waste or organics cart.
- Hire a lawn care professional to remove Giant Hogweed or Wild Parsnip.
On public property
- If you find an invasive plant in a park or other area, call 3-1-1.
- Real Christmas tree and seasonal wreaths
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Curbside collection
Real Christmas trees are collected from the curb on select days in January.
- Check your collection calendar for your tree pickup day.
- Remove all decorations before setting out your tree for collection.
- Put real wreaths at the curb for collection on the same day as your Christmas tree.
A Christmas tree will not be collected if:
- It is taller than 3 m (10 ft.)
- It is in a plastic bag.
- It is placed on or in a snowbank.
- It is still decorated with tinsel or ornaments (or both).
Apartment/condominium building collection
- If you live in an apartment or condo, put your Christmas tree at the curb by the driveway entrance of your property. Be sure your tree doesn't obstruct the road or sidewalk.
Peel Community Recycling Centre (CRC)
- If you miss your Christmas tree pickup day, drop your tree off at a Peel Community Recycling Centre (CRC). Trees taller than 3 m. (10 ft.) must be cut in half to be accepted.
- Be sure to remove all tinsel, ornaments, plastic bags, nails, wires and tree stands from your tree before bringing it to a CRC.
- Shower insert (metal)
This item is reusable waste.
If this item is in good condition, take it to a Peel Community Recycling Centre (CRC) reuse drop-off area.
Additional information:
- Discarded items that are oversized, in poor condition, or missing parts may not be accepted for reuse. A disposal fee may apply to these types of items.
- The Salvation Army Thrift Store, the Salvation Army Thrift Store Donor Welcome Centres, and the Bolton CRC Evolve Lifestyle store provide reuse services to Peel residents.
- Staff have the right to refuse items that contain hazardous materials or could contain sensitive or confidential information.
- Staff have the right to refuse items that are banned or recalled by Health Canada or the Canadian Standards Association (CSA).
- Staff have the right to refuse items due to sanitary, health, or safety concerns.
Diabetes Canada Textile Sheds
Sheds are located just outside at 10 Peel Centre Drive or 7120 Hurontario Street. Always check the acceptable items you can drop in the shed before disposing of the item.
If a reusable item is broken or in poor condition, put it in your garbage cart. Place larger items on the curb for collection. Find your collection calendar.
- Sump pump or grinder
This item is reusable waste.
If this item is in good condition, take it to a Peel Community Recycling Centre (CRC) reuse drop-off area.
Additional information:
- Discarded items that are oversized, in poor condition, or missing parts may not be accepted for reuse. A disposal fee may apply to these types of items.
- The Salvation Army Thrift Store, the Salvation Army Thrift Store Donor Welcome Centres, and the Bolton CRC Evolve Lifestyle store provide reuse services to Peel residents.
- Staff have the right to refuse items that contain hazardous materials or could contain sensitive or confidential information.
- Staff have the right to refuse items that are banned or recalled by Health Canada or the Canadian Standards Association (CSA).
- Staff have the right to refuse items due to sanitary, health, or safety concerns.
Diabetes Canada Textile Sheds
Sheds are located just outside at 10 Peel Centre Drive or 7120 Hurontario Street. Always check the acceptable items you can drop in the shed before disposing of the item.
If a reusable item is broken or in poor condition, put it in your garbage cart. Place larger items on the curb for collection. Find your collection calendar. - Tires, wheel rims or wagon wheels
This item is not collected from the curb.
Other ways to dispose of this item:
- Some auto-related service providers and retailers in Ontario may accept used tires. Find a tire collection site near you.
- Tractor and large off-road tires
This item requires special handling.
Take this item to an Ontario Steward (OTS) Approved Collector.
Additional information:
- Large size off-road tractor and loader tires are not accepted at Peel Community Recycling Centres (CRCs).
