Kawartha Lakes

Be recycle ready

• Make sure your waste and recycling is set out at the curb by 7 a.m. (6 a.m. if you live in a downtown core). Trucks do not always come at the same time every week. On your collection day leave your recycling at the curb until 7 p.m. before bringing it back inside if it was not collected. 
• Remember to place your recyclables loose in your recycling bin. Bagged recycling will not be picked up.
• Always remove lids and rinse food and drink containers before recycling them.
• There is no limit to the amount you can recycle each week. Blue Box and Green Box recycling are collected on alternating weeks.
• Recycling must be placed loose in wide-mouthed bins (16-22 gallons) at the curb (large 95 gallon carts will not be accepted and are for multi-residential and commercial use only).
• Break down cardboard boxes so they are no larger than the size of your green bin.
• Do not place fibre contaminated with motor oil or pet waste inside your green box.
• Ice cream containers go into the blue box.