Victoria Day in the County of Brant

Victoria Day is Monday, May 18. As you enjoy the long weekend, be sure to review the notices below for holiday hours, service updates, and important fireworks safety information.

View our Victoria Day Hours notice 

View our Fireworks Safety notice

Recycling

Recycling helps keep our community clean and sustainable. 

County of Brant residents can place all acceptable blue box materials together—loose and co-mingled—into their blue box. There's no need to sort materials. See below for a list of acceptable and unacceptable items.

 

As of January 1, 2026, additional items are now accepted in our recycling program—making it even simpler to recycle right.

  • Flexible plastic packaging [plastic bags, deli meat bags, chip bags, overwrap (example - packing over a paper towel roll)]
  • Foam packaging (meat trays, take out containers, cups, plates, bowls)
  • Empty aerosol containers (food and personal care products) 

Acceptable Box Board:

Packaging made of boxboard including cereal and cracker boxes, toothpaste boxes, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, etc.

Unacceptable Box Board:

No waxed box board, soiled, oil stained or painted boxes

How to Properly Recycle:

  • Remove all inner and outer packaging materials and plastics
  • Break down smaller boxes and place insider larger boxes or in a paper bag
  • Simply place neatly in or beside your blue box

Acceptable Cardboards:

  • Packaging made of clean corrugated cardboard
  • Maximum bundle size of 0.8m x 0.8m x 0.25m (32” x 32x” x 10”)
  • Secure cardboard that is too big to fit loose in the blue box with masking tape, packing tape or light string

Unacceptable Cardboards:

  •  No waxed cardboard or soiled, oil stained or painted boxes
  • No grease-stained pizza boxes

How to Properly Recycle:

  • Remove all inner and outer packaging materials and plastics
  • Pieces should be smaller than 0.8m x 0.8m x .25m (32" x 32" x 10")
  • Leave small pieces loose in your blue box and secure bundles with packing tape or twine
  • Place neatly beside, under or in your blue box

Acceptable Glass:

Food and beverage glass containers

Unacceptable Glass:

  • Window glass and mirrors
  • Lightbulbs
  • Drinking glasses and cups
  • Ceramics, dishes and ovenware

How to Properly Recycle:

  • Remove lids, place recyclable lids in blue box
  • Rinse out residue
  • Place loose in the blue box

Acceptable Metals:

  • Steel and aluminum food and beverage containers only
  • Metal lids
  • Empty food and personal hygiene aerosol cans
  • Empty and dry paint cans (lids removed)
  • Clean aluminum foil and pie foils
  • Empty aerosol containers (food and personal care products)

Unacceptable Metals:

  • Automotive Parts
  • Metal pots and pans
  • Scrap Metal
  • Hazardous Waste Containers
  • Propane Cylinders
  • Wire
  • Batteries

How to Properly Recycle:

  • Remove lids, place recyclable lids in blue box
  • Rinse out residue
  • Place loose in the blue box

Acceptable Mixed Paper:

  • Hot and cold beverage cups
  • Magazines, ad mail, newspapers and flyers
  • Phonebooks
  • Paper back and hard copy books
  • Printer or photocopy paper
  • Tetra Pak™ drink and soup cartons
  • Gable Top type cartons (milk and juice)
  • Ice Cream Cartons
  • Cardboard can (examples juice and chip containers)

Unacceptable Mixed Paper:

  • Waxed paper
  • Gift Wrapping
  • Butcher Paper
  • Photographs
  • Diapers
  • Paper Beverage Trays

How to Properly Recycle:

  • Remove and discard plastic caps
  • Rinse out residue
  • Place loose in the Blue Box (please do not crush)
  • Do not bundle or bag mixed paper. Simply place them neatly in your blue box or in paper bags to reduce blowing litter
  • Shredded paper must be compacted

Acceptable Plastics:

  • Food, beverage containers and bottles, household cleaning and personal hygiene product bottles (laundry / dish soap) made of mixed plastics
  • Clear and black "clam shell" type fruit/deli/prepared food, bakery and takeout containers
  • Plastic plates, cups and coffee cup lids
  • Single serving plastic food containers (example yogurt containers - please remove film or foil lids and discard)
  • Plastic plant pots and trays
  • Single use coffee pods (coffee must be removed)

Unacceptable Plastics:

  • Plastic Cutlery
  • Styrofoam™ (#6) meat trays, packaging materials and cups
  • Grocery / bread bags
  • Plastic wrap / films
  • Plastic toys and tools
  • Hazardous waste containers
  • Motor oil bottles
  • Blister Packaging

How to Properly Recycle:

  • Remove lids, place recyclable lids in blue box
  • Rinse out residue
  • Place loose in the blue box (do not crush)

Recycling Containers

  • Blue Boxes and Blue Box Lids are available for purchase at any County of Brant Customer Service Office or Solid Waste Facility.
  • Blue Box: $10.00
  • Blue Box Lid: $3.50 (Please note, lids only fit the large 22 gallon blue boxes)
  • Please note that all sales of blue boxes are final; returns, exchanges, and refunds are not accepted.

Free Blue Boxes: For residents in a newly constructed home, or for replacement of a damaged blue box (maximum of 2), free blue boxes can be picked up at the below locations during operating hours. No appointment necessary.  Residents will be required to provide their address and contact information. It is not required to return the broken blue box(es).

Blue Box Pick Up Locations

Recycling Program and Contact 

Since January 2025, the County of Brant’s Blue Box Recycling Program has been managed by Circular Materials, with curbside recycling collection provided by Emterra Environmental.

While the County no longer oversees the Blue Box program directly, recycling collection will continue as usual, with Emterra Environmental handling day-to-day operations.

Thank you for continuing to recycle and helping to keep our community clean and sustainable!

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