How to sort your waste

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).

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.

This item can be hazardous to safety or health.

On public property, if you find a dead bird or animal, call the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative at 1-866-673-4781, or:

• Call 311 if you live in Brampton or Mississauga.
• Call 905-584-2272 if you live in Caledon.

If you must pick up a dead bird or animal, wear gloves, then place the bird or animal in a doubled plastic bag. Tie the bag closed, then wash your hands thoroughly. Do not place a dead animal in your recycling or organics for collection.

If you don't want to collect and dispose of the dead animal, you can hire a private business or contact a pest control agency.

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.

This item is recyclable.

To properly dispose of this item visit CleanFARMS.

This item is recyclable.

To properly dispose of this item visit CleanFARMS.

This item can be hazardous to safety or health.

This item has options for disposal.

On private property

• Place all invasive plants in a plastic bag, tie the bag, and then put the bag in the garbage.
• Do not compost Giant Hogweed or Wild Parsnip.
• Do not put Giant Hogweed or Wild Parsnip in your yard waste or organics bin.
• You can also 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).

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 you�ve 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.

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

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 plastic bag, tie the bag, and then put the bag in the garbage.

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.

• Do not compost invasive plants.
• Do not put invasive plants in your yard waste or organics bin.
• 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.

This item has options for collection or disposal.

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.

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.

• 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.
• You can bring reusable items in good condition to a Salvation Army Thrift Store Donor Welcome Centre at select Peel Community Recycling Centre locations.
• 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.

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.

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.

• 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.
• You can bring reusable items in good condition to a Salvation Army Thrift Store Donor Welcome Centre at select Peel Community Recycling Centre locations.
• 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.

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.

This item is neither collected from the curb nor accepted at Peel Community Recycling Centres

Other ways to dispose of this item:

• Tire producers are responsible for taking back their products. Contact the retailer or service provider who sold or gave your tires or rims to you. They will tell you how to dispose of your tires.


• You may also drop off used tires at a tire collection site near you.

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).