How To Set Out Your Recyclables
IMPORTANT!!
All blue boxes, blue bags, and yellow bags (from houses) and carts (from apartments and if required to do so) must be set out by 7:00 am!
Blue Box Program
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Set our your blue bag, yellow bag, and blue box, when full, by 7:00 am on your collection day. Please place the bags BESIDE the blue box and lay the bags on their sides to keep the rain out. |
Apartment Program
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Be sure to set out your carts by 7:00 am if you are required to set them out. Lids on the apartment carts must close. Do not overfill the carts or they can't be dumped. If you need extra carts, call 3-1-1 (or 604.873.7000 from outside Vancouver city limits) . |
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Acceptable & Unacceptable Materials
Newsprint (Blue Bag or Newsprint Cart)
 Acceptable Items |
Preparation
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 Unacceptable |
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Paper Products (Yellow Bag or Paper Products Cart)
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Preparation
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Unacceptable |
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Mixed Containers (Blue Box or Containers Cart)
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Preparation
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Unacceptable |
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Contamination:
Collection crews will NOT empty any set outs (carts/blue boxes/bags) that contain unacceptable items and a contamination tag will be attached to outline why the set out was not picked up. Please remove the unacceptable items from your setout before your next scheduled pick up day.
Please see the Take Back Programs section below on available options to recycle some of the unacceptable items.
TAKE BACK Programs: Some items that are not accepted for collection in the Blue Box or Apartment Recycling Program can be recycled through the industry-led take back programs. Residents are able to return certain items to the industry for recycling. The following is a list of take back programs currently available (please check individual website for the drop-off depot nearest you):
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Tips: Other Containers Recycling Currently, there are no formal Take Back programs for materials such as Tetrapak soup containers, meal replacement beverage containers, plastic containers made of #3, #6 and #7 including Styrofoam, and plastic bags (although some grocery stores may take these materials back as part of their store programs). For additional information and disposal options, please contact the Recycling Council of BC at 604.732.9253 or at hotline@rcbc.bc.ca. |
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Other Recycling Options
- Drop off large loads of flattened cardboard at Vancouver's main recycling depot at 377 West Kent Avenue North. This depot also accepts scrap metals and other recyclable materials free of charge. For more information on acceptable items, please call 3-1-1 (or 604.873.7000 from outside Vancouver city limits) .
- Contact the Recycling Council of BC at 604.732.9253 or e-mail at hotline@rcbc.bc.ca for information on options to recycle or properly dispose individual items.
- Contact the Regional Compost Hotline at 604.736.2250 or e-mail at composthotline@telus.net or visit Grow Natural for information on natural and sustainable yard care, including backyard composting, worm composting for apartments, grasscycling and being waterwise.
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