Recycling

The Municipality of South Bruce has two landfill sites for you to dispose of recyclable materials. Our sites work with other organizations to help recycle and dispose of waste in an environmentally friendly way. This helps to divert waste from filling up our landfills.

Learn how you can properly dispose of your hazardous household waste at our landfills.

Recyclable items

Our landfills have designated areas for you to drop off your materials so they can be recycled. This includes all recyclables also accepted through our curbside garbage and recycling pickup. Both of our landfills accept the following list of materials which are not part of our curbside pick up recycling service.

Agricultural Plastics/Twine

You can dispose of clean bale wrap (white ONLY), twine, silage bags & bunker covers (each type must be separated and brought to the landfill in collection bags) free of charge, at the Teeswater-Culross landfill only.

Collection bags can be picked up at the landfill site. If you are a large producer of this type of waste, please contact Cleanfarms Inc. directly at 1-877-622-4460 to discuss the use of an on-farm press.

Asphalt shingles

You can dispose of your asphalt shingles for a tipping fee at the Teeswater-Culross landfill only. Please make sure you segregate these materials.

Clothing

You can drop off your gently used clothing and general household textiles to one of the Canadian Diabetes Association donation bins located at both of our landfill sites for free.

Items accepted in donation bins include:

Accessories and bags
Clothing
Curtains
General household textiles (towels, blankets, sheets)
Shoes and boots
Sleeping bags

Items that we do not accept in donation bins include:

Household items
Electronics
Sports Equipment
Organic and Hazardous Materials
Any item that does not fit inside the bin

You can also arrange free household pick-ups with the Canadian Diabetes Association where there is an expanded list of acceptable items not included in the clothing bin program. Each year, the association helps to divert items from the landfill, reduce your carbon footprint and help those in need.

Corrugated cardboard

Corrugated cardboard containers, such as packing boxes or take-away pizza boxes, are not accepted in curbside blue box collection. Take these materials to our recycling cardboard bins found at these locations:

Mildmay-Carrick Landfill
Teeswater-Culross Landfill
Mildmay Carrick Complex, 24 Vincent St, Mildmay, ON N0G 2J0
Teeswater-Culross Community Centre, 21 Marcy St E, Teeswater, ON N0G 2S0
Behind the Teeswater Library, 2 Clinton St S, Teeswater, ON N0G 2S0
Behind the Mildmay Post Office, 56 Elora St, Mildmay, ON N0G 2J0

Please clean off any oil, grease and food and flatten your corrugated cardboard boxes before you recycle. Do not dispose Styrofoam, paper, or garbage in the cardboard recycling bin.

Electronics

Electronic waste (e-waste) is considered anything with circuitry or electrical components with a power or battery supply. You can recycle a full range of electronics free of charge at both our landfills where we collect, sort and ship them off site for recycling. Some examples of accepted e-waste materials include:

Printing, copying and multi-function devices
Telephones and answering machines
Cellular phones and pagers
Audio and video players, and recorders (i.e. MP3, cassette, digital)
Cameras (i.e. web, digital, analog)
Home theatre (i.e. equalizers, amplifiers, speakers, turntables)
Radios
Receivers
Personal hand-held computers
Computers (desktop and portable)
Computer peripherals (i.e. modems, keyboards, mice, hard drives, optical drives - CD, Blu-ray, DVD, HD-DVD)
Display devices (i.e. monitors and televisions)

Protect your privacy

The Municipality is not responsible for personal information contained on your electronic devices. Please clear all personal information from computers, cell phones, routers and electronics before you drop them off. This includes wiping your drives and clearing your SIM cards.

Expanded Polystyrene (Styrofoam)

Accepted Styrofoam materials can be dropped off, free of charge, at both Mildmay and Teeswater landfill sites.

Only white, rigid, expanded polystyrene packaging will be accepted. This packaging is commonly from:

Computers
Electronics
Appliances
Lighting and fans
Tools
Toys

When you bring these materials, ensure that you:

Remove all tape, plastic, stickers, cardboard, and other contaminants attached to foam
Ensure material is clean and dry

Materials that are not accepted for recycling must be disposed of with your other household garbage or at the landfill sites for a fee. These items include:

Take-out food containers
Meat trays
Coffee cups
Disposable dishware
Packing peanuts or popcorn
Construction insulation (i.e. blue or pink)
Polyethylene and polypropylene packaging
Foam bags and wrapping
Hot tub cover inserts
Pool noodles

How we recycle Styrofoam

The Municipality of South Bruce has partnered with Second Wind Recycling, for the Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) styrofoam recycling service pilot project. Second Wind Recycling provides the Municipality with a densifying and removal service of all post-consumer EPS packaging and ensures it is recycled by a registered recycler. Give your Styrofoam a second chance at life. It could become a park bench, picture frame or crown molding.

Film plastics

You can recycle your film plastics free of charge by placing them in the appropriate bin at both of our landfill sites. Acceptable items include:

Retail and packaging bags
Food and produce bags
Product packaging and wrap

The film plastics that we do not accept include:

Unclean items
Packaging in contact with meat or dairy
Crinkly, non-stretch packaging
Agricultural bale wrap
Beverage rings
Stretch cling wrap
Bubble wrap
Zipper lock and resealable bags

Household batteries

You can recycle your household batteries at both of our landfills free of charge. We accept batteries including:

Single-use batteries (AAAs, AAs, 9-volt, D’s & C’s)
Lithium batteries (put in a plastic bag or tap batteries at both terminal ends)
Button cell batteries
Corroded or leading batteries (put in a plastic bag)

Mattresses and box springs

There is a dedicated site trailer at each landfill site for you to dispose of your mattresses and box springs for a fee. We work with Recyc-Mattresses to divert them from our landfills and recycle them in an environmentally friendly way.

Metal

Scrap steel, large appliances and white metals are accepted free of charge at both landfill sites. Please note that all fridges, freezers, AC units, humidifiers, water coolers must be tagged freon-free by a certified technician.

Tires

You can your drop-off used, clean, tires for free at both our landfills. We will recycle the tires through the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) Program. You can:

Keep rims on tires
Bring up to ten tires per day
Bring both on-road and off-road vehicle tires

We will recycle these tires into items like playground surfaces, floor mats, and rubber car components.