Timmins

Recycling Program Transition

Starting January 1, 2025, the City of Timmins’ recycling program will be managed by Circular Materials, the administrator of the common collection system and a national not-for-profit organization that is committed to building an efficient and effective recycling system in Ontario.

For recycling-related information up until January 1, please visit the City of Timmins’ website.

Recycling resources

Learn more about recycling collection in Timmins.

Be recycle ready

Rinse materials before recycling. Make sure containers are free of food, liquid, and residue before placing them in recycling.
Flatten and break down cardboard boxes to save space on recycling and ensure they are collected.
Keep materials loose inside your recycling cart. When materials are put into other bags or inside other plastic they cannot be sorted properly.
Place your recycling cart out by 7 a.m. on your collection day.
Point the front of the cart facing the street and place two feet away from other carts.
Place your recycling cart on a flat surface clear of any snow and ice and three feet away from any obstructions.

List of recyclable materials

Learn more about what materials are accepted and not accepted in curbside recycling.

1. Clear and coloured glass containers:

Include glass bottles and/or jars.
Do not include dishes, crystal or light bulbs.

2. Metal containers and empty dry paint cans:

Push lids down inside containers. Remove plastic or aluminum lids or seals.

3. Empty aerosol containers:

Include shaving cream, hairspray, and air freshener containers.

4. Aluminum containers:

Include soda cans, plates, foil & trays.

5. Plastic containers:

Include items with the following recycling symbols: 1, 2, 4 and 5

6. Polystyrene foam:

Items must have the recycle 6 symbol.
Do not include any dirty foam.

7. Polycoat containers:

Include juice, milk and cream cartons.

8. Aseptic containers:

Include packaged milk, juice, soy beverages, sauces, soup broth and liquid meal replacements.

9. Household papers:

Include newspapers, phonebooks, flyers, etc.

10. Cardboard and boxboard:

Remove any plastic, foil, residue, inserts, and liner bags.

No waxed cardboard.

Clothes/ clothing of any kind is not recyclable. For donation, please contact a reputable charitable organization.
Coloured bags in recycling – such as green, black, orange.
Construction material such as wood, metal etc.
Yard Waste such as grass clippings, leaves, branches
Animal waste
Blueprints/carbon paper
Soiled Pizza boxes and soiled cardboard (e.g. grease, mould, paint cluttered cardboard)
Aerosol cans (spray paint, bug spray, etc.) and other hazardous waste (paint, chemicals, pesticides) full aerosol cans are not acceptable, and should be disposed of at the annual Hazardous Waste Day in Timmins.