By beginning this survey you accept our privacy policy. Caution State of Local Emergency declared Minimize. What goes where Residential recycling and disposal search tool. Search Go. Locate your item in the A-Z Listing. Food and beverage cans. Home Environment Garbage information What Goes Where recycling and disposal search tool How to recycle metal food and beverage cans. How to recycle metal food and beverage cans. Recycle empty and clean food and beverage cans: In your blue cart At a community recycling depot This includes: Canned food containers tuna can, soup can etc Cookie, candy and biscuit tins Coffee cans Pop cans Special instructions Place cut out metal lids inside the empty tin can and squeeze the top closed see image.
Paper labels are ok to leave on. Take pop and other drink cans to an albertadepot. My Account. Welcome to Natural Home Brands! Login Create Account. Definitely recycle these! Aluminum can be recycled indefinitely. Aluminum Foil — make sure to wipe clean of any food particles.
Foil can also be cleaned off easily and re-used. Americans discarded about , tons of foil in Steel Cans or Tin Cans Coffee cans, soup cans, veggie cans, etc. Cardboard boxes - with all the online shopping, food meal prep to your doors, we have never had so many boxes in our lifetime. This other recyclable paper we are talking about is newsprint, colored paper, file stock and found wood paper — these can be made into cardboard, tissues, newspaper, and toilet paper.
Newspaper — recycled newspaper can be made into cereal boxes, egg cartons, pencil barrels, grocery bags, tissue paper, and other products, such as more newspaper. Paperboard — mostly made for food packaging like cereal boxes — one side of paperboard is usually gray in color. Recycle these too please! This is good for our steel and tin cans in the recycling bin, because unfortunately, the market for recyclables plays a huge role in the viability of recycling in the United States.
Many of the tariffs put on by China are slowing down , but it is important to consider how global our recycling market is, even if the rules for recycling remain hyper local. According to the EPA , of the Single-stream recycling, where all recyclables are placed into the same bin, has made recycling easier for consumers, but results in about one-quarter of the material being contaminated remember those 7 plastics from earlier?
There are organizations like How2Recycle and the Sustainable Package Coalition working to make recycling and packaging more sustainable and clear for everyone at all levels of the food system.
Luckily for those of us obsessed with canned goods, glass and metal can be recycled indefinitely, but do require some input of energy to do so. Still, the best thing you can do for the environment can often be to reduce packaging all together. One of our earliest articles was a piece about how buying dried beans could be better for the planet because they would require less energy to transport due to their weight.
This is still true, and if you are able to find beans in the bulk section of the grocery store, you can buy them without any single use packaging at all. Comparatively however, canning reduces huge amounts of food waste from overproduction at the farm level, and can be a wonderful way to have vegetables on hand year round.
According to the Steel Recycling Institute, steel recycling in the United States saves the energy equivalent to electrical power for about one-fifth of American households for one year. Breaking Down Recycling: Cans. Jan 14 Written By Hannah Fuller.
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