Styrofoam & Plastics Recycling Saturday, Dec. 12
Posted by Cheryl McLachlan on December 11, 2009
The final soft-plastic recyling depot of 2009 is this Saturday. The PMD Depot, 10AM – 1PM, in the Belmont High School parking lot off Jacklin Road.
It is quicker for everyone, including you, if you pre-sort your recyclables into these categories:
1) all hard plastics (remove any metal bits) from plastic containers to children’s toys
2) soft plastics (remove food residue and any nonsoft plastic attachments, aluminum coated soft plastic is its own category) includes shopping bags, cereal box inserts, soft wrap around food and other products
3) aluminum coated plastics – for example chip bags, granola bar wrappers, some yogurt container pull tops
4) processed & coated paper – including the subcategories of: i) milk cartons, ii) tetra litres & mini-paks – for soya/rice milks, soup, & mini-drink boxes, iii) gable tops – juice, egg beaters, and iv) processed/coated frozen or hot food trays, cups and paper.
5) styrofoam – 3 subcategories – i) clean packaging stryrofoam ii) food grade styrofoam (which must be washed) – meat and snack trays, styro egg cartons and cups, iii) peanut styrofoam (please bring inside a closed container).
6) electronics & batteries – like computers, printers, household appliances, priced individually by weight.
Note: PMD does NOT do plain paper, cardboard, tin cans or aluminum foil – all of which CAN go in your CRD Blue Box curbside collection. PMD also does not do metal, rubber, vinyl or light bulbs of any type..
Payment can be made by credit card, debit or cash.
