Family and Community Support Services - Town of Drayton Valley

Blue Bag Recycling
Recycling Tips
Here are some tips to make your recycling efforts most effective.
Tin Cans do not have to be flattened, and the labels can stay on.
Aluminum cans do not have to be flattened, and the labels can stay on.
Clear or coloured glass food containers are acceptable. Coloured glass mixed
with clear tableware, cookware and light bulbs, lids or attachments, dirty
containers, and ceramic materials are not acceptable
Newspapers must be clean, dry, and uncontaminated. Envelopes, flyers, boxboard,
and magazines are acceptable. Wet or dirty paper products are not acceptable.
Corrugated Cardboard must be flattened, clean, dry, and uncontaminated.
Boxboard, pop cases, pizza, and cereal boxes are acceptable. Styrofoam is not
acceptable. Heavily taped or stapled packing material is not acceptable. Wet, dirty,
or oily cardboard is not acceptable.
All mixed paper, except shredded paper, can go in blue bags. Shredded paper
should be in a separate blue bag and taken to the depot. It is not acceptable with
other materials or door-to-door pick up.
Clean Plastic Grocery Bags are acceptable. Place bags inside the blue bag.
Rigid Plastic - Only No. 1 and 2 clean plastic containers are acceptable.
Clear white plastic milk jugs must be well rinsed. Please remove lids and flatten
as much as possible. Lids and caps or any other types of plastic leftover milk
containers are not acceptable.
Milk Cartons must be well rinsed and flattened as much as possible. Leftover milk
is not acceptable.
Bottle Returns
Beehive Bottle Depot 780-542-3113
5225 – 55A Street, Drayton Valley
Hours of Operation: Monday – Saturday: 9-4, Closed on all Stat Holidays.
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