How to recycle aluminum foil, plates and containers
Examples of foil packaging
- Pie tins and baking trays
- Foil takeout containers
- Stove liners
- Aluminum foil (tin foil)
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Put into your blue cart or take to a community recycling depot
Put clean and dry aluminum foil (crumple into a ball):
- Into your blue cart for recycling
- Take to a community recycling depot
Special instructions
- If foil is covered in lots of oil, grease, meat juices etc. and cannot be cleaned, put in your black cart as garbage.
- Put foil food seals (e.g. such as yogurt tubs) in your black cart as garbage. They are made out of aluminum and plastic, which cannot be recycled.