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Glass food jars and bottles

How to recycle glass food jars and bottles

Mason jars

Glass jars

Examples of jars

Items include: 

  • Mason jars
  • Pickle jars
  • Salsa jars
  • Jam jars 
  • Pasta sauce jars
  • Olive oil bottles
  • Cooking oil (vegetable, grapeseed etc.) and olive oil bottles
  • Apple sauce jars 

  • Put this item in your blue cart or drop off at a community recycling centre.

Recycle empty and clean glass food jars and bottles:

  • In your blue cart — unbroken and broken glass jars can be placed loose in your blue cart
  • At a community recycling depot

Special instructions

  • Recycle metal lids about the size of the palm of your hand (including lids with a rubber seal) in your blue cart. Smaller lids go in the garbage.
  • Put decorative mason jars (not for food) in your black cart as garbage. Paint, glue and other decorative materials cannot be recycled.
  • Stickers/labels are ok to leave on the glass jar.

If you live in an apartment, townhouse or other multi-family complex, glass bottles should be accepted in your building's recycling program. If they are not accepted, please contact 311 to report this issue.

Map of community recycling depots

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