Your Blue Box lets you dispose of household residential recycling products. Recycling prevents excess materials from going to the landfill, prolonging the life of the landfill and helping protect the environment. It requires far less energy to recycle and reuse, than using raw materials to make something new.
What happens to your Blue Box materials?
A recycling truck empties your blue box and takes your recyclables to a special “recovery” facility. At the “recovery” facility, both people and machines sort through the recyclable materials.
Once the materials have been separated, they are bundled and shipped to manufacturing companies around the world that reprocess the recyclable material to make many kinds of new products.
Blue Box Transition
All municipalities in Ontario are transitioning their Blue Box Program to a new collection model. Under the new model, the companies that produce blue box materials will be required to fully fund and operate the recycling system.
In Timmins, the transition to a new Blue Box collector will occur on January 1, 2025.
Beginning on January 1, 2025, the approved common collection system administrator will be a non-profit company called Circular Materials. Circular Materials will be responsible for the collection of Blue Box materials from homes and residential buildings in Timmins.
Learn more on our Blue Box Transition page.
Quick Tips:
- Keep materials loose inside your recycling cart.
- Break down Styrofoam and flatten carboard boxes.
- Rinse out all food containers.
- Do not bag recycling products.
Definitions:
SOILED: to make unclean, dirty, or filthy, especially on the surface, a spot, mark or strain, dirty. If enough soiled material makes its way into a recycling container the load is considered to be contaminated and will be discarded and sent to the landfill. Taking a few moments to make sure material is unsoiled and dry ensures that all material will be able to be recycled.
CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL: metal pipes, wood 2×4, shingles, flooring, carpets, ceramics and drywall.
List of Acceptable Recycling Products: