Recycling

Household Recycling

• At the Landfill & Transfer stations household recyclables can go together except glass, which must be separated. Why? Because currently glass has a poor recycling market at the moment so we actually crush it and use it for road building, as it is a superior product for this.
•  If you are enrolled in the curbside garbage and recycling pickup, all accepted recyclables can go together, including glass and would then be sorted at their depot.
• No plastic bags required! Just empty your recycling bags into the bin and reuse your bags.  We have signs up at the landfill and all transfer stations as well as a barrel for you to put your single use plastic bag in once the recycling is emptied from it.

What is household recycling?

• Food and beverage containers (eg. cans, bottles, cartons)
• Plastic containers and packaging with a recycling triangle
• Newspapers, flyers, mail, magazines, paper
• Boxboard/cardboard boxes (eg. pizza, cereal, laundry)
• Shredded paper can be placed in a full size (77 litre) clear plastic bag
• Cardboard egg cartons and paper tubes

*please leave all lids on containers and bottles

What is not accepted as household recycling?

• Plastic bags, cellophane
• Plastics without a recycling triangle
• Plastics that are not a container (eg. laundry baskets, toys, plastic cutlery)
• Aluminum foil, foil pie plates, foil food containers
• FOAM: cups, food containers, egg cartons, meat trays, packing materials
• Mirrors, window glass, broken glass
• Light bulbs, drinking glasses, ceramics, cookware
• Steel pots and pans, scrap metal
• Waxed cardboard (eg. frozen food boxes, tomato boxes)

Resources:

The Manitoba government’s website tells you locations of where you can recycle everything.

Simply Recycle’s website allows residents to go to the site, enter in an item and then it will tell them if they are able to recycle it or not.

Download Simply Recycle’s Recycling Guide: