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Blue Box
The City of Markham
provides blue box recycling collection to over 90,000 homes and 165 apartment/condo
buildings. With an easy-to-use program, residents can recycle right and recycle
more!
Blue box material is collected every week on your regular collection day. Put clean materials in your blue box loosely. Don't put them in bags.
You need to put your blue box at your curb by 7 AM on your collection day. Or, you can put it at the curb after 7 PM the night before.
Windy Day Tips:
High winds can be challenging at the curb; knocking over bins, blowing recyclables into the streets and ending up in the parks. Help prevent blue box material from becoming litter, follow these windy day tips:
- Put your blue box out in the morning of your collection day, not the night before;
- Don't overload; keep material below the rim; stack blue boxes if possible
- Bundle newspapers and place on top of the lighter items
- Flatten and bundle small cardboard boxes (e.g. cereal, tissue boxes)
- Write your address on your blue boxes in permanent marker — this makes it easier for them to be returned if they blow away
Guidelines:
- Do not bag. Items must be loose in your blue box; bagged material can not be recycled.
- Plastic bags and Styrofoam are not accepted in the blue box. Drop off at any Markham Recycling Depot for recycling
- No limits to blue boxes at the curb – you can buy additional boxes at a Markham Recycling Depot
