WASTECO RECYCLES

PAPER
ACCEPTABLE
  • computer paper
  • white ledger
  • bond paper
  • coloured paper
  • fax paper
  • file folders
  • post-it-notes
  • envelopes
  • windowed envelopes
  • NCR paper (no carbon required)
  • magazines
  • newspapers
  • coffee cups
UNACCEPTABLE
  • carbon paper
  • cardboard
  • glass or metal
  • lunch or food waste
  • plastic or styrofoam
  • tissue or paper towels
  • overnight courier envelopes

CARDBOARD
ACCEPTABLE
  • plain corrugated
  • printed, coloured, lightly taped
  • staples, strings on corrugated
UNACCEPTABLE
  • waxed cardboard
  • greasy, oil or food stained cardboard
  • cardboard cores
  • cardboard containers lined with foil, plastic, styrofoam
  • excessively taped boxes (ie. entire surface taped)
  • cardboard contaminated by construction materials such as paint, tar, drywall compound, cement
  • other paper fibres, ie. boxboard, kraft paper
  • beer cases and other wet strength containers

GLASS, CANS AND PLASTICS
ACCEPTABLE
  • caps, labels, straws
  • plastic #1, & #2
  • coffee cup lids
UNACCEPTABLE
  • ceramics
  • glass plates
  • bulbs