Chart for accepted materials in reclycling bins
Is it a container? Is it packaging? Is it printed paper? It goes in the green bin!
Plastic
- Bottles, containers and wrappings for food products, drinks, cosmetics, personal hygiene products and household cleaning products featuring one of these symbols:
- Caps and lids
- Bags and packaging films collected in a knotted bag
Beginning June 28, 2023, merchants will be prohibited from distributing shopping bags composed of single-use plastic, including oxo-biodegradable, oxo-fragmentable, biodegradable and compostable plastic bags. However, the following items are exempt from the ban:
- Reusable shopping bags
- Plastic shopping bags used for hygienic purposes for food items in bulk
- Plastic bags distributed by a dry-cleaning service
- Products already packaged by an industrial process
- Plastic bags used to package tires
- Plastic bags containing advertising material for door-to-door distribution
We encourage you to use reusable shopping bags made of textile materials when making your purchases. For more information, please refer to bylaw (2022)-206.
Paper and cardboard
- Newspapers, flyers, magazines
- Paper sheets, envelopes and bags
- Cardboard boxes
- Egg cartons
- Gable top milk and juice cartons
- Books and telephone books
- Cardboard rolls
- Aseptic containers (Tetra PakTD type)
Glass
- Bottles
- Jars
Metal
- Tin cans
- Caps and lids
- Aluminium foil and containers
- Aluminium bottles and cans
- Cintres (regroupés en paquet)
- Pipes
- Pots
Sources: MRC des Laurentides, traindeviedurable.com, Centre de tri Tricentris
INFORMATION
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environnement@villedemont-tremblant.qc.ca
