Landfills

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. It is very important that these materials are free of debris and are kept as clean as possible.

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

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.

Canadian Diabetes Association

Yard waste and compost are accepted at both landfills.

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
• Behind the Mildmay Post Office, 56 Elora St, Mildmay, ON N0G 2J0
• Mildmay Carrick Complex, 24 Vincent St, Mildmay, ON N0G 2J0
• Teeswater-Culross Landfill
• Teeswater-Culross Community Centre, 21 Marcy St E, Teeswater, ON N0G 2S0
• Behind the Teeswater Library, 2 Clinton St S, Teeswater, ON N0G 2S0
• Formosa Recreation Centre, 13 Community Dr, Formosa ON N0G 1W0

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.

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.

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

Accepted Styrofoam Materials

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.

Second Wind Recycling

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

Film Plastics

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)

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.

Recyc-Mattresses

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.

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.

Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) Program