Here at the Region of Peel we're proud of your efforts to recycle.
Here at the recycling facility our job is to separate your recyclables into products
that will be sold to market and later re-used to manufacture new items.
The products we sell include paper, cardboard, plastics, glass, metal and aluminum.
Here's a few things that you can do that will make sure your recycling efforts aren't wasted:
Take the newspaper out of the bag , now remove the elastic and flatten the paper before putting
it in the box. You can put the wrap or plastic bags -- inside
one bag. Grocery bags are okay for this. Then you want to tie the bag up and put the whole thing into the box.
You can take the elastic and either reuse it or put them in the garbage.
You need to do this because the sorting machines
can't separate the plastic from the paper and the rolled up package acts like a bottle
instead of a flat newspaper and ends up in the wrong place.
If your blue box is full, put your extra recyclables items in a clear or blue-tinted see-through
bag. Please, use only see-through bags.
Bagging your extra recyclables will prevent them from blowing away on windy days.
Please don't put recyclable items in garbage bags or grocery bags. If we can't see through the bag, it won't get recycled because the
sorting conveyors move so quickly there's no time to grab, open and sort each individual bag.
We'll only recycle grocery bags that contain other plastic bags or wrap.
Everything else will be sent to landfill.
Please don't put single plastic bags and wrap loose into a box. Instead,
put them all in one single plastic bag, tie it tightly, and put it in your blue box.
A bag filled with other plastic bags is faster and easier to collect during sorting.
Loose plastic bags and wrap are too light to be properly sorted and can also jam up the sorting machines.
Put loose shredded paper directly in your into your green bin
or a yard waste bag. Shredded paper can't go inside your blue box with other
blue box materials since it's too small. The small pieces also create problems that
require extra machine maintenance.
There are many other ways to reuse shredded paper, such as using it as a packing material
or bedding for small pets such as hamsters or gerbils.
Packaging, like this pop case, can't be recycled as one item
because plastic and cardboard are sold as two separate items
Please remove the plastic from the cardboard , flatten the cardboard and then put it inside the blue box
Place the plastic wrap inside a plastic bag along with other wrap and plastic bags ,
tie the bag and it can go into the box as well.
Our sorting machines move too quickly to separate the items at the recycling facility.
Your recycling efforts make a difference.
Follow these instructions to make sure that your efforts aren't wasted.
Please visit our website for more details and tips on how to recycle.
And remember, recycle right.