What to do with takeout containers...stuck on food that won't come off go in the clear bag

    Monday, 15 December 2025 12:06

    By Tonya Organ

    A pizza from an establishment has a grease soaked box while frozen pizzas bought from a grocery store can go in the blue bag.

    It’s a thing many of us…order takeout in nifty plastic or cardboard containers to enjoy elsewhere. What’s left after you finished your meal could be recycled or basically anything that has food waste that can’t come off goes in the clear bag. Lynn Howse is with WRWM. She says some cardboard, like tim boxes, can go in the blue bag to be recycled. If it’s clean, it goes in the blue bag, but with things filled with jam or jello and coated in sugar, the boxes go in the garbage

    Howse says the same rule apologies for pizza boxes. She says a pizza from an establishment has a grease soaked box while frozen pizzas bought from a grocery store can go in the blue bag. For more information about waste and recycling go to wrwm.ca

     

     

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