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Prevent Litter.
Recycle Right.  Everything has its place.


This Week In "Litterland"
Published Feb. 10, 2013 to March 20, 2022
Final Edition
"Litterland" Library

Spring cleaning and ongoing City of Toronto Litter Operations, 2022

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2022 Submission to the City of Toronto:
"If Toronto is serious about tackling its littering problem, it has to talk about the subject far more than is being done."
Sheila White, Litter Expert and Litter Prevention Program founder

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Six ways to go wrong when recycling in the City of Toronto*

 • Single polyethylene plastic shopping bags, while recyclable, can clog sorting machines. They are picked out as garbage. Toronto advises stuffing many bags into one, and tying it shut.

 • Toronto is currently rolling out its recycling program for rigid plastic (clamshell) food containers, including CD cases. Watch for the advertising  campaign in November 2012.  Recycling-ready plastic items such as ice cream tubs or pop bottles and clean polystyrene (Styrofoam) food containers all go in the blue bin.

 • Propane cylinders, of whatever size, will explode if processed at a recycling plant. Cylinders should be taken to a household hazardous waste depot.

 • Loose shredded paper cannot be sorted efficiently with other fibre products. Toronto asks recyclers to bag shredded paper before the blue bin.

 • Liquid and food residue contaminates otherwise recyclable containers. While trace amounts of waste can be extracted during the sorting process, a half-full bottle of soap, for example, will be sent to garbage. Scrub down liquid residue from food and detergent containers.

 • Glass from mirrors, windows, light bulbs and eye glasses have a different melting point than glass from food containers and jars, and cannot be processed by Toronto’s recycling facilities.

* Source: The Toronto Star
OUTSIDE TORONTO, CHECK LOCAL MUNICIPALITY FOR RECYCLING RULES.  PROCEDURES VARY FROM PLACE TO PLACE.