Not all wrapping paper can be accepted for recycling at Drumheller’s recycling bin locations. Only paper wrap is accepted, and it must be put in a garbage bag first. Foiled, laminated or plasticized wrapping paper, or paper with those coatings, has to be saved for re-use or put in the garbage.
For those who don’t save their Christmas wrapping paper for re-use, a lot of it can be recycled.
Tammi Nygaard of the Drumheller and District Solid Waste Management Association said they can accept wrapping paper at the Town’s recycling depots near Subway and across from 7-11.
Not all wrapping paper can be taken to Drumheller’s recycling - only the paper wrap. Any wrap with a laminate, plastic or foil coating, or made of those materials, has to be saved for re-use or put in the trash.
Residents are asked to put their wrapping paper in a garbage bag only for wrapping paper, then put the bag in either the bond or newspaper sections of the recycling drop off bins.
Nygaard said this helps staff by letting them do a quick check of the garbage bag.
Once the Christmas chocolates are finished and the boxing day pizza is polished off, those boxes can go to Drumheller’s recycling bins as well.
Nygaard said cardboard boxes with anything water soluble on them, such as food particles or food stains, can be accepted for recycling.
The paper goes through a washing process, she explains, which makes the food containers acceptable for recycling.
Drumheller’s landfill also encourages residents to drop off a number of items, at no charge, including:
- used motor oil
- household paints
- car batteries
- propane tanks
- household hazardous wastes (includes items with the danger symbols on them, such as the skull and crossbones, etc.)
A list of items accepted for recycling can be found at http://dinosaurvalley.com/index.php/recycling.
Residents unsure of what the waste facility can accept for household hazardous wastes can give the Drumheller Regional Landfill at call at (403) 823-1343.
