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South Frontenac

Learn more about your recycling program.

Service Alert

Due to icy road conditions on January 9, collection was missed on select rural roads in South Frontenac. Dual-stream recycling collection for the roads listed below will take place on Friday, January 16.

Burridge Lake Road
Dewitt Road
Lee Road
Iawah Road
Canor Lake Road
James Wilson Road
Devil Lake Road
McAndrews Road
Hannah Road North
Mulville Road
Rickards Road
Norman Road
Trotter Road
Mansonville Road
Cove Lane
Meredith Lane

If you have any questions, please reach out to Emterra at 1-888-597-1541 or by email at customercareont@emterra.ca.

Questions?

For questions related to:

  • Replacement recycling containers.
  • Missed collections.
  • What you can recycle.

Please contact: 

Emterra

1-888-597-1541
For concerns or other recycling-related questions, please contact Circular Materials:
customerservice@circularmaterials.ca
1-877-667-2626

Recycling resources

Learn more about recycling collection in South Frontenac.

What you can recycle

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.

Glass containers

Clear and coloured glass. Food containers, jars and bottles. Cosmetic containers, spice bottles, oil and vinegar bottles.

✅ Empty and free from food residue.

✅ Lids and caps off.

 

Plastic containers

Laundry detergent and household cleaner jugs, shampoo, body wash, salad dressing, condiment, dish soap, mouth wash bottles.

 

✅ Empty.

✅ Lids and caps on.

Plastic food containers

Food trays, salad, yogurt, peanut butter, bakery and egg containers, plastic cups, plastic tubs and lids, black plastic containers.

✅ Empty.

✅ Lids and caps on.

Paper laminate containers

Spiral cans, cookie dough packages, ice cream containers/tubs, and hot and cold beverage cups.

✅ Empty.

✅ Remove lids.

Cartons

Dairy and dairy substitute cartons, molasses and sugar cartons, laundry and cleaning cartons, soup and sauce cartons, coffee cartons.

✅ Rinse and dry.

✅ Lids and caps on.

Aluminum (foils and trays)

Aluminum foil, pie plates, frozen food trays.

✅ Rinse and dry.

✅ Ball up aluminum foil.

Metal

Food cans, metal lids, candle, cookie, coffee and tea tins.

✅ Rinse and dry.

Foam packaging

Meat trays, takeout containers, cups, plates, bowls, foam packaging for products.

 

✅ Empty and free from food residue.

✅ Remove film wrap and absorbent pads from meat trays.

Tubes

Toothpaste tubes, deodorant, hand cream tubes.

✅ Empty.

✅ Lids and caps on.

Small plastic containers

Small item packaging, hand sanitizer bottles, plant pots.

✅ Empty.

✅ Lids and caps on.

Aerosol containers

Food spray, hairspray, air fresheners, shaving cream, deodorant.

✅ Empty.

✅ Lids and caps on.

❌ Aerosols with toxic, corrosive or flammable symbols are not accepted with the exception of:

    • Cooking oil sprays and products designed for food.
    • Hairsprays, cosmetics and products designed to be used on hair/skin.

Be recycle ready

  • Give containers a quick rinse before putting in your recycling.
  • Place materials clean, dry and loose in your recycling.
  • Flatten and bundle cardboard to save space.
  • Lids and labels can remain on containers.
  • Have your recycling to the curb by 6 a.m. on collection day.
  • Hazardous materials, like batteries and medical sharps, do not belong in your recycling. Safely recycle them at a designated drop off location.

What’s not accepted

Books

Toys

Diapers

Pot and Pans

Hazardous Materials

Batteries

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