As of October 1, 2026, your community’s recycling program will be managed by Circular Materials, a national not-for-profit organization that is committed to building an efficient and effective recycling system in Alberta.
Starting July 1, 2026, you may contact your community’s contracted collection partner at the information below for questions about recycling in your community.
For questions related to:
Please contact:
Integrity Waste Solutions Inc.
For concerns or other recycling-related questions,
please contact Circular Materials.
Click to find accepted materials, sorting and set-out instructions, and depot information for your community.
Cardboard boxes
Pizza boxes, direct mail boxes, moving boxes, shoe boxes.
✅ Flatten.
Boxboard
Cereal boxes, tissue boxes, egg cartons, rolls from toilet paper and paper towel.
✅ Flatten.
✅ Empty.
Cartons
Soup, broth, egg and sauce cartons.
✅ Empty and free from food residue.
✅ Keep lids on.
Paper
Any colour, including flour bags, prescription bags, paper produce bags.
Notepads, white or coloured loose paper, file folders, other printed materials.
Community newspapers, flyers, brochures and magazines.
Greeting cards and envelopes, gift boxes.
✅ Empty.
✅ Separate from plastic bags used to cover items, remove elastic bands.
❌ Do not include soft or hard covered books/novels.
Hard plastic containers
Laundry detergent and household cleaner jugs, shampoo, body wash, salad dressing, condiment, dish soap, mouth wash bottles.
✅ Empty and free from food residue.
✅ Keep lids on.
PET plastic packaging and containers
Food trays, salad, yogurt, peanut butter, bakery and egg containers, plastic cups, plastic tubs and lids.
✅ Empty and free from food residue.
✅ Keep lids on.
Small item plastic packaging
Hand sanitizer bottles, medication bottles, blister packs, plant pots.
✅ Empty and free from food and residue.
✅ Keep lids on.
Metal containers
Food cans, formula tins, metal lids, cookie, coffee and tea tins
✅ Empty and free from food residue.
Aluminum (foils and trays)
Aluminum foil, pie plates, frozen food trays.
✅ Empty and free from food residue.
More materials will be accepted at all recycling collection points – curbside and depot. These materials include glass containers (where they are not currently accepted), foam packaging, flexible plastic packaging, empty aerosol containers, laminated paper and plastic packaging.
As of October 1, 2026, the provincial recycling system for packaging and paper products in Alberta will be managed by a not-for-profit organization called Circular Materials. This change is part of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulation passed by the Government of Alberta in 2022 that shifts the financial and operational responsibility of recycling programs from municipalities to “producers” – businesses in Alberta that produce and supply packaging and paper materials to consumers.
As of October 1, 2026, your recycling program will be managed by Circular Materials. There is no cost to residents for this service.
Please check your recycling guide and calendar linked at the top of this page.
There is no cost to residents for recycling services for packaging and paper products. In 2022, the Government of Alberta passed regulation which introduced extended producer responsibility (EPR) for single-use packaging and paper products (PPP) in the province. EPR is a policy approach that shifts the financial and operational responsibility of recycling programs from municipalities to “producers” – businesses in Alberta that produce and supply packaging and paper materials to consumers. This new EPR framework means municipalities and taxpayers will no longer pay for recycling services as this cost will now be paid by producers.
