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Aluminum foil, plates and containers

How to recycle aluminum foil, plates and containers

Aluminum foil

Foil baking trays

Foil takeout containers (lid removed)

Foil baking trays

Stove burner liners

Examples of foil packaging

  • Pie tins and baking trays
  • Foil takeout containers 
  • Stove liners 
  • Aluminum foil (tin foil) 

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

Put clean and dry aluminum foil:

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

Special instructions

  • Rinse off any food residue and crumple the foil into a ball before recycling. 
  • 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. 

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