How To Sort Your Mixed Containers: Quick Tips

Mixed Containers are banned from the landfill and other waste disposal facilities. It is very important – both for our environment and for cost management – to recycle properly.

Did you know Urban Impact can help your organization recycle your glass, metal and plastic containers?

Recycling “mixed containers” is an effective way for your organization to minimize the environmental impact of your waste, communicate responsibility to your community and reduce your costs of operations.

Mixed Containers Recycling

Our Mixed Containers program covers the recycling of glass containers, rigid plastic (HDPE, PET & LDPE, PS and PP), aluminum, steel and tin containers. Customers are not required to sort and keep these materials separately. All glass, metals and plastics can be simply placed together.

Here’s a Tip about Plastic Containers from the Recycling Council of British Columbia:

Plastic containers are a petroleum-based material that are used to package goods. Most plastic containers have a resin code, generally found at the bottom of the container. These codes were introduced in 1988 to help recyclers identify the different types of plastics in the waste stream.

Urban Impact accepts all seven types of plastic: plastic bottles, plastic food jars, plastic containers, plastic tubs and milk jugs with a Mobius Loop and code numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Please check recycling symbols on the bottom of plastic container and rinse & empty them before recycling.

Urban Impact’s Mixed Containers Program Features & Benefits:

Recycling pickup and processing of mixed containers to help your organization minimize environmental impact, communicate corporate responsibility and reduce costs.
Timely, professional pickup service to help keep your facility clean.
A variety of internal recycling bins and containers provided for convenient use by workers
We provide complete training and educational materials for management, cleaning staff and employees.

Call us today to set up a Mixed Containers Recycling program for your business.

Glass Containers

Acceptable	Not Acceptable
All colors of glass bottles & jars	Glassware Window or Pane Glass Crockery

Metals Containers

Rinse and flatten metal cans. Labels do not need to be removed.

Acceptable	Not Acceptable
Aluminum and steel cans Clean aluminum pie plates and aluminum take-out containers	Paint Cans Aerosol cans

Plastic Containers

Plastic container types #1-7 are acceptable. Refer to the bottom of the container to identify the plastic type. Remove caps and flatten plastic containers.

Acceptable	Not Acceptable
Plastic container types #1-7	Plastic buckets with lids Packaging styrofoam Plastic containers with food residue Containers with no code Chemical containers Plastic toys and oversized items