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Flour and sugar bags

How to recycle flour and sugar bags

Flour bag

  • Put into your blue cart or take to a community recycling depot

Put empty paper flour bags and sugar bags:

  • Into your blue cart for recycling
  • Take to a community recycling depot

All paper layers can be recycled.​​

Special instructions

Shake out any leftover flour/sugar into your green cart first.

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