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Plastic food containers

How to recycle plastic food containers

Plastic tubs

Plastic jars

Plastic clamshell containers

Salad dressing bottles

Deli tubs

Salad kit containers

Produce containers

Ketchup bottles

Plastic sushi trays

Examples of plastic food containers

  • Plastic tubs like yogurt, sour cream and margarine
  • Plastic bottles like salad dressing and ketchup
  • Plastic jars like peanut butter and snacks
  • Plastic clamshell containers like salad kits and baked goods
  • Large plastic containers like protein powder and cornstarch
  • Measuring scoops (recycle separate from container) 

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

Put empty and clean plastic food containers:

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

Special instructions

  • Remove any hand pumps, eye droppers and seals and put in your black cart as garbage. 
  • Clean containers before recycling.

Map of community recycling depots

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