Cardboard boxes

Pizza boxes, direct mail boxes, moving boxes, shoe boxes.

✅ Flatten. No larger than 60 x 60 cm.

Boxboard

Cereal boxes, tissue boxes, egg cartons, rolls from toilet paper and paper towel.

✅ Flatten.

✅ Empty.

Paper laminate packaging

Pet food bags, food service paper bags, and plates.

✅ Empty and free from food residue.

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.

✅ Place shredded paper in a tied clear plastic bag.

✅ Separate from plastic bags used to cover items, remove elastic bands.

✅ Remove rope handle from bags.

❌ Do not include soft or hard covered books/novels.

 

Flexible plastic packaging

Bags used for dry cleaning, bread, newspapers and flyers. Overwrap (paper towel & toilet paper, beverage containers). Coffee bags or deli pouches, chip bags, bubble wrap, snack wrappers, cereal liner bags, plastic gift bags.

✅ Empty and free from food residue.