How to dispose of single-serving food packets
Examples of single serve food packets
- Hot chocolate powder packets
- Oatmeal packets
- Coffee, cappuccino and latte powder packets
- Iced tea powder packets
- Tea bag packet
- Vitamin and energy drink powder packets (e.g. Ener-C, Gatorade, Crystal light)
- Nutritional powder packets
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Put into your black cart
Put individual-sized serving food packets into your black cart as garbage.
Why can't this be recycled/composted?
These individual serving packets are often a multi-material made of a mix of paper, foil and/or plastic that cannot be easily separated for recycling and are not suitable for composting.