Recycling: Get into it!

Blue Box Multi Bag Curbside Urban Service
This unique curbside service, funded by the District of Maple Ridge, combines the best of door-to-door efficiency with sound environmental principles.

Residents of urban Maple Ridge are asked to keep recyclables separated in the blue box and reusable coloured bags to ensure clean, contaminant free commodities that command the best market prices. In the process, recyclers learn the recycling ideal - uncontaminated commodities that can be re-manufactured in their purest form. Residents are the first line in processing recyclables.

Please place your Blue Box & re useable bags at the curb by
8:00 AM on your recycling day, as shown on this map.

Maple Ridge Curbside Recycling
Please Recycle		YES (acceptable)	NO (not acceptable)
	Glass: Bottles & Jars	Clean glass bottles & jars, refundable drink boxes, phonebooks	No lightbulbs, dishes or mirrors
	Office Paper & Magazines	Office paper, envelopes, glossy magazines, catalogues	No paper towel, carbon, waxed or tissue paper
	Cardboard	Corrugated, boxboard, brown paper, manila envelopes	No milk cartons, drink boxes, waxed or soiled cardboard
	Cans: Tin & Aluminum	Clean cans, aluminum, metal lids	No plastic jugs or containers
	Newspaper	Newspapers with flyers	No office, glossy paper, cardboard
	Plastics	Use shopping bags to hold clean plastic bags, washed & squashed plastic bottles & containers numbered 1, 2, 4, 5	No Styrofoam, glass, tin, aluminum or plastics numbered #3, #6 or #7

Instructions for recycling plastic at the curb: Please wash & then squash plastic containers before placing them in leftover plastic shopping bags with your regular recycling. Containers accepted are plastics numbered 1,2,4 & 5 as outlined in the chart above.

Apartment Recycling: Apartment residents have access to recycling through the blue bag program. Residents gather household recycling in their blue bags & sort items into central bins. Contact apartment managers or strata representatives for information about your specific program. Call RMRS at 604-463-5545 for replacement bags.

Commercial Recycling Concepts: RMRS offers local businesses & schools a complete, low cost commercial recycling service that helps them reduce waste in the workplace. This program recovers office paper, newspapers, magazines, cans, glass & cardboard. Collection rates range from $12.00 for monthly collection, $32.00 for weekly collection to $52 for collection twice a week. Call in service is available on an occasional basis for a fee of $25 per pick up. In this program, RMRS will work with businesses & schools to design a helpful, convenient system of recycling collection.

Appliance & Large Item Pick-up: RMRS will pick-up used appliances & other large items at the curb. The fee is $32 for the first item & $5 for each additional item, up to a maximum of three. Items must be placed at the curb for pick-up.

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