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Food cans and tin cans

How to recycle metal food and tin cans

Food cans

Tuna cans

Coffee and tea tins

Cookie tins

Tin cans

Biscuit tin containers

Examples of metal food cans

  • Canned food containers (tuna can, soup can etc.)
  • Cookie, candy and biscuit tins
  • Loose leaf tea tins
  • Coffee cans

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

Put empty and clean food cans:

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

Paper labels are ok to leave on.

Special instructions

  • Cans with cut out metal lids or pull tab lids: place metal lids inside the empty tin can and squeeze the top closed (see image).
  • Cans with a plastic lid: remove the lid and recycle both items separately.

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