Common Camping Recyclables
Camping over the long weekend? Help keep BC beautiful by packing out what you bring in!
Here are some common camping recyclables that no longer have a place in the garbage.
Leave them out of your pack list this camping season to more easily sort/recycle from the convenience of home, or pack them up and drop them off at a depot on your way home to save a trip to the depot later on:
Recyclable as “Containers”:
✓ Aluminum Trays & Foil
✓ Large jugs that packaged water, juice, sodas
✓ Beverage cans & bottles (or drop off to a Return-it
depot)
✓ Jars (from pickles etc)
Recyclable as “Flexible Plastics”
Drop off to participating depots or London Drugs, or in communities where it exists, your pink bin:
✓ Cleansing, baby or facial wipe packaging (flexible kind with rigid plastic opening/closure)
✓ Beverage flat overap (from soda cans, bottled water etc.)
✓ Salad-in-a-bag packaging
✓ Instant noodle packaging (crinkly wrappers)
✓ Chip bags
✓ Marshmallow bags
✓ Hot dog & burger bun bags
✓ Sandwhich bread bags
✓ Granola bar wrappers
✓ Graham cracker bags
✓ Seaweed snack packaging
✓ Freeze-dried meal pouches (with no paper layers)
✓ Deli meats, sausage and cheese packaging
✓ Zip-top baggies
Leave it out:
✗ NO garlic bread bags (most have a layer of paper)
✗ NO Flexible 6-pack rings (their composition is different than other flexible plastic packaging)