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Paper food wrappers and takeout bags

How to compost paper food wrappers and takeout bags

Fast food bags

Paper wrappers

Paper bags

French fry bags

Dessert bags

Examples of paper bags and wrappers

  • Fast food bags and paper lunch bags
  • Cookie and dessert bags 
  • Sandwich bags
  • French fry bags 
  • Paper hamburger and sandwich wrappers 
  • Mandarin orange wrappers
  • Movie theatre popcorn bags

How to dispose

There are two ways to dispose of paper food wrappers and bags depending on whether they are clean or food-soiled.

Mostly clean paper

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

Put clean paper wrappers and takeout bags (a little grease is ok):

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

A lot of grease, sauce and food chunks

  • Put into your green cart

Put food-soiled paper food wrappers and takeout bags into your green cart for composting (sauce-covered, icing covered or lots of food chunks). 

You can also reuse takeout bags as a liner in your kitchen compost pail.

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