How to sort your waste

Recycle

Boxboard

This item is recyclable.

Put this item in your recycling (blue) cart or a transparent clear or blue-tinted plastic bag.

• Empty and flatten small cardboard boxes (such as cereal and tissue boxes). Place the flattened boxes in your recycling cart or in a clear or blue transparent recycling bag.
• Cut boxes or large pieces of flattened corrugated cardboard into smaller sizes that will fit in your recycling cart. Put the cut pieces in your recycling cart. .
• If the pieces won’t fit in your cart, tie the pieces together into bundles. Ensure that bundles are smaller than 1x1 m (3 x 3 ft) and weigh less than 20 kg (44 lb). Bundles that exceed these maximums will not be collected.
• Place the bundles in a clear or blue transparent recycling bag or on the ground next to your recycling cart.
• Remove any mesh windows from vegetable bags (such as potato bags or onion bags). Place the mesh window in the garbage and place the vegetable bag in your recycling.
• Remove any plastic handles from cardboard fruit baskets. Place the handles and the basket loose into your recycling.
• Place kraft paper lunch and grocery bags into your recycling cart.

• The lid on your recycling cart must be completely closed for collection. A closed lid helps prevent litter.
• Recycling is mandatory in the Region of Peel.
• The Region collects unlimited amounts of recycling waste from the curb.
• 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.

• Take cut and flattened cardboard to a Peel Community Recycling Centre (CRC) free of charge.