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Residential recycling and disposal search tool

Plastic buckets and pails

How to recycle plastic buckets and pails

Plastic buckets

Plastic handles ok

Hardware pails

Remove metal handles

Ice cream buckets

Cleaning buckets

Examples of plastic buckets

  • Ice cream buckets
  • Hardware pails
  • Kitchen cleaning pails

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

Put empty and clean plastic buckets:

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

Special instructions

  • Buckets up to 20 litres (five gallons) capacity are accepted in your blue cart.
  • Remove any metal handles and put in your black cart as garbage.

Map of community recycling depots

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