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Food soiled cardboard and paper

Food soiled cardboard and paper

Cupcake and muffin liners

Napkins

Paper bags

French fry boxes and bags

Burger boxes

Pizza boxes (this is a lot of grease)

Examples of food soiled cardboard and paper

  • Bags 
    • Fast food bags, french fry bags, cookie, dessert, and sandwich bags, paper lunch bag 
  • Boxes 
    • French fry boxes, burger boxes, lined paper food boxes [see special instructions] 
  • Wrappers 
    • Paper hamburger wrappers, mandarin orange wrappers, paper sandwich wrappers 
  • Paper food trays 
  • Paper condiment cups 
  • Paper plates 
  • Paper straws 
  • Paper containers 
  • Paper cups 
  • Coffee filters 
  • Tea bags 

How to dispose

There are two ways to dispose of food soiled cardboard and paper depending on whether they are soiled a lot or a little amount.

A lot of grease and food

  • Put this in your green cart

  • Reuse food-soiled paper bags in your kitchen compost pail. 
  • Put in your green cart for composting (sauce-covered or lots of food chunks). 

Some grease or clean

  • Put this item in your blue cart or drop off at a community recycling centre

Some grease is ok.

Special instructions

  • If the item has a glossy shine to it, it must be labelled as “compostable” in order to go in the green bin. 
  • If you have a container labelled as "compostable", see Compostable Takeout Containers. 

Why can't some glossy items be composted?

Items can have a plastic lining to prevent the container from becoming soggy. Keep all plastic out of the green cart.  

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