Blue Bag Recycling
Recyclable materials are collected at the curbside, sorted, bailed, and sold to various markets for recycling, helping to recover the cost of the program. They are also collected by private waste haulers for businesses and these sorting rules apply to everyone.
Before you throw something in the blue bag, is there another way you can use that item? Plastic grocery bags can be reused; plastic tubs and lids make good storage containers; and glass jars are great for pickles, jams and jellies.
If you are putting items in the blue bag, please make sure they are rinsed clean. We can’t recycle items that are dirty, and they can contaminate other items in the bag as well.
The following items belong in your blue bag:
They must be rinsed clean - all lids go in the blue bag.
Plastic bottles
Plastic tubs
Shrink wrap
Bubble wrap
Coffee cup lids
Clear and film plastic
Plastic bags
Metal cans
Pie plates and aluminum foil
Glass bottles and jars
Milk and juice cartons
All refundable beverage containers
Organics
Green carts store your organic waste between collections. If you do not have a green cart, call us at 543-2991 and we will arrange to have one delivered, or you can pick it up here at our site.
The organics you place in your green bins are delivered to us here at the Community Recycling Centre, and are processed into compost.
Check out our Green Cart Tips and learn how to get the best out of your composting!
Put these items in your compost cart
Food scraps
Soiled paper
Coffee cups
Waxed paper
Wet paper
Yard waste and lawn trimmings
No plastic please! If you must line your compost bin, only use certified compostable bin liners with US or Canadian Composting Council logo. These have been tested in the Community Recycling Centre's composting facility. Newspaper or paper bag compost bin liners are preferable.
Oxo-biodegradeable bags or bags bearing other logos are NOT acceptable for use within our area. They are labelled as biodegradeable, but do not break down quickly enough in our composting facility and contaminate the compost.
Paper
These items should be put in a plastic grocery bag or clear bag
Wrapping paper (non metallic)
Office paper
Boxboard, i.e. cereal boxes, tissue boxes
Newspapers and flyers
Magazines
All Books (hard and soft cover)
Junk mail
Envelopes
Cardboard
Corrugated cardboard must be flattened, folded and tied into 3' x 2' x 2' bundles.
Garbage
Garbage should be placed in green or black bags. By the time you recycle all of your other waste, there shouldn’t be much left to go in these bags!
Candy wrappers
Potato chip bags
Foiled wrapping paper
Pringles™ potato chip type cannisters
Floor sweepings
Disposable diapers
All styrofoam
Sanitary napkins
Clothing and footwear
Pet Litter
Vacuum cleaner bags
Small spiral flourescent lightbulbs (CFLS), wrapped inside garbage bag
Broken Glass
Place inside labelled box, taped shut - not in garbage bag or blue bag
Household Hazardous Waste
At the Community Recycling Centre we accept the following HHW free of charge:
ABS solvent cement
Acetone (nail polish)
Acid Corrosives
Adhesives
Aerosols (empty ones go in the blue bag)
Ammonia-based cleaners
Antifreeze
Autobody fillers
Ballasts (PCB free)
Battery acid
Brake fluid
Butane
Camp fuel/igniters
Carpet cleaner/shampoo
Caulking compound
Chlorine bleach
Contact cement
Creosote
Diesel fuel
Drain opener
Driveway sealer
Enamels
Fertilizers
Fibreglass resin/epoxy
Floor wax
Fluorescent tubes
Foundation coating
Furnace or stove cement
Gas
Gas-line antifreeze
Grease
Herbicides
Insecticides
Kerosene
Large Household batteries
Liquid Flammables
Metal polishes
Methyl Hydrate
Mortar
Motor oil
Non-refillable propane cylinders and old 20 lb refillable tanks
Paint stripper
Paint thinner
Paints
Pesticides
Photo developers
Pipe joint compound
Plastic cement
Plastic wood (aerosol)
Poison
Reactives
Rechargeable batteries (from cellphones, power tools, laptops, etc)
Roofing tar/cement
Sealers
Shellac
Solid Flammables
Stains
Transmission fluid
Turpentine
Varsol
Wood preservative
Used oil should be dropped off here at the Community Recycling Centre, at your nearest oil retailer.
Leftover household paint can be dropped off here at the Community Recycling Centre or returned to your nearest ENVIRO-DEPOT™.
Construction and Demolition Waste
Construction and demolition (C&D) waste can be brought to the Community
Recycling Centre and must be sorted as follows:
Clean wood and brush
Painted wood or wood with small amount of metal and chipboard
Asphalt shingles
Old bricks and concrete
Metals, including appliances, empty drums with one end removed and metal tanks that have been cut in half and drained.
Non-refillable propane cylinders must be dropped off at the Household Hazardous Wast Depot to be drained completely first.
To read the Community Recycling Centre's C&D waste sorting brochure click here.
Sharps
Sharps (needles) should be placed in a sharps container and returned to your local pharmacy. As part of a program developed in 2001, all pharmacies provide their customers with a FREE sharps disposal container and they accept full sharps containers from residential users for safe disposal. Syringes and lancets should never be placed in the blue bag or garbage bag! Community Recycling Centre staff process waste and may be harmed if sharps are placed there.
Recycle Rechargeable Batteries
Through its national program, Call2Recycle™, the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) recycles used portable rechargeable batteries and old cell phones.
Rechargeable batteries are commonly found in cordless power tools, cellular and cordless phones, laptop computers, camcorders, digital cameras and remote control toys.
Simply take the rechargeable batteries or old cell phones here to the Community Recycling Centre, or to The Source by Circuit City at the Bridgewater Mall. You can call them at (902) 543-3224.
Electronics Recycling
From February 1, 2008 the province of Nova Scotia has banned the following designated electronic waste (e-waste) from landfill:
• Televisions
• Desktop, laptop and notebook computers, including CPU’s, keyboards, mice, cables and other components in the computer
• Computer monitors
• Computer printers, including printers that have scanning or fax capabilities, or both
• Personal or portable audio/ video systems
• Vehicle audio/ video systems
• Home theatre in a box systems
• Non - cellular telephones
In response to this regulation, industry formed an association called Atlantic Canada Electronics Stewardship (ACES) Program, and entered into a stewardship agreement with the Province of Nova Scotia to develop, implement and manage an Electronics Stewardship Program Plan for the province.
Consumers will pay an Environmental Handling Fee (EHF) on these designated electronics when purchased. Consumers and businesses will be able to drop-off these e-waste items at Corkums Recycling without charge or refund and with ACES assurance that these items will be recycled responsibly. Businesses will also have the option of scheduling drop-offs for large quantities of e-waste.
These e-waste items that are banned from landfill will not be picked up during regular curbside waste collection.
For more information:
Call ACES Toll Free: 1-877-774-3260
ACES E-mail:
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Website: http://www.acestewardship.ca/
You can drop these electronics off at Corkum's Recycling on #364 Hwy 324, Northwest Road, Lunenburg Mon - Sat and their phone number is 634-4972. They also have a drop-off at the garage, #2519 Hwy 325 in Oakhill. It is open 9am - 2pm every Saturday. Please note, the Lunenburg Regional Community Recycling Centre CANNOT accept these items. The LRCRC is not an ACES drop-off location.
Cell Phone Recycling
Recycle My Cell is Canada's national recycling program for mobile devices. Cell phones, Smartphones, batteries and pagers may be dropped off for free at the Community Recycling Centre's Hazardous Waste Depot for free. The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg administrative office at 210 Abderdden Road, Bridgewater, also accepts these items. For more information call 1-888-797-1740 or visit www.RecycleMyCell.ca.
QUICK LINKS
Funding for Non Profits to Promote Recycling and Composting
Resource Recovery Fund Board (RRFB) Nova Scotia provides funding for events or initiatives with a focus on waste reduction, reuse, recycling and composting.
Funding of up to $500 is provided for events that are "going green", community gathering points that require recycling and composting containers and more.
For application details, visit RRFB Nova Scotia's website and click on "Community Sponsorship Application". |
