Environmental Services
Recycling Guide

Remember, thinking GREEN means thinking BLUE.

The City of North Bay now accepts polycoat cartons, such as milk and juice cartons (with a gable or tented top). We also accept Tetra Pak's ,such as juice boxes.

Look at the wide variety of products that can now be found in tetra or polycoat containers

• Oil
• Wine
• Sauces
• Juice Boxes
• Soup
• Milk cartons
• Pet food
• Crackers

Household Paper
We Do Accept	Not Accepted
Magazines & Catalogues Business and Greeting Cards Newsprint Photocopying & Fax Papper Junk mail & Flyer / Inserts	Disposable Cups Wallpaper Coffee Filters Paper Towel & Tissue paper
Aluminum
We Do Accept	Not Accepted
Aluminum and Steel Cans (eg.pop) Aluminum Foil Aluminum Plates(eg. pie plate)	Potato Chip bags Paper backed lids (lids from take-out) Any unclean foil items
Plastic
We Do Accept	Not Accepted
Bottles/Containers with following Symbols	Wide mouth containers Yogurt Ice cream Margarine tubs Any lids or caps
Cans
We Do Accept	Not Accepted
All food and beverage cans
Glass
We Do Accept	Not Accepted
All food and beverage containers wine bottles, pop bottles Clear or coloured glass	Broken glass Light bulbs Mirrors
Cardboard: flatten/bundle/tie and stack
We Do Accept	Not Accepted
Tissue or detergent boxes Cereal boxes Shoe or packing boxes Pizza boxes	Frozen food containers Center roll tubes (ie paper towel) No larger than 30"x30"x8")

Broken Glass

• Fluorescent lights: Box/label as glass and leave with your regular garbage.
• Windows Panes of Glass: First call Rebuilt Resources at 497-7878 - otherwise break/box/label as glass and leave with your regular garbage.

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