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Paper food wrappers and takeout bags

Fast food bags

Paper wrappers

Paper bags

French fry bags

Dessert bags

Examples of paper bags and wrappers

  • Fast food bags and paper lunch bags
  • Cookie and dessert bags 
  • Sandwich bags
  • French fry bags 
  • Paper hamburger and sandwich wrappers 
  • Mandarin orange wrappers
  • Movie theatre popcorn bags

How to dispose

There are two ways to dispose of paper food wrappers and bags depending on whether they are clean or food-soiled.

Mostly clean paper

  • Put into your blue cart or take to a community recycling depot

Put clean paper wrappers and takeout bags (a little grease is ok):

  • Into your blue cart for recycling
  • Take to a community recycling depot

A lot of grease, sauce and food chunks

  • Put into your green cart

Put food-soiled paper food wrappers and takeout bags into your green cart for composting (sauce-covered, icing covered or lots of food chunks). 

You can also reuse takeout bags as a liner in your kitchen compost pail.

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