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Below, you’ll find Odanak’s complete garbage, recycling and composting collection schedule, as well as the dates for large garbage collection
2025 PICKUP SCHEDULE

Do you regularly wonder whether a material goes in the blue bin, the black bin or the brown bin?
🡺 You can install RECYC-QUÉBEC’s “Ça va où?” app on your smartphone to assist you in your daily sorting of materials.
Here’s an outline of what goes into the recycling and the garbage can. For the brown bin, see the page dedicated to composting.

All containers, packaging and printed matter, with the exception of biodegradable plastics, aerosols and Styrofoam.

It’s now simpler than ever: no need to look at the numbers in the triangle (Möbius strip), no need to check if the plastic stretches, all containers, packaging and printed matter except the 3 exceptions are accepted in the recycling bin. Previously rejected materials such as chip bags, cereal bags, soft bar wrappers and many others are now accepted.

Biodegradable plastics, aerosols and Styrofoam.

Anything that is not a container, packaging or printed matter. No clothing, pool liners, garden hoses, dishes, etc.

No. Materials must be loose to be properly sorted by the sorting equipment at the sorting center. If materials are stuck in a box, they cannot be separated.
Not necessarily. The important thing is to empty the container well. A quick rinse is good for removing excess and keeping your bin cleaner and odor-free for workers, but don’t waste water rinsing containers down to the last crumb!
No, it’s not necessary to remove them. However, if you do want to remove them, they will be recycled with the paper, which is even better.
Small caps up to 5 cm should be left on the container to be recycled. Lids larger than 5 cm should be separated.
Even soiled aluminum can be recycled ad infinitum. However, you can make a ball or close the foil so that the soiled side is on the inside, to avoid contaminating other materials in the bin.
When in doubt, it’s best to put it in the black bin, so as not to endanger the safety of workers and sorting center equipment. If this material is frequently present in your daily life, contact us or use the tools available to find out if it can go in the blue bin.
Each recycling stream is equipped to handle certain types of residue. It is therefore necessary to return residues to the right place so that they can be properly managed.

You probably know that, before being a landfill, the site in question is a natural environment that needs to be deforested. By reducing what goes into the black bin, we reduce the need for landfill. So we slow down the filling up of these sites and postpone the need to create new ones, further and further away, requiring even more transport. This helps protect our terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, our forests, the air they provide, the animals that live there and those we hunt, our rivers and the fish we catch.

What’s more, the extraction of resources, particularly petroleum derivatives, is highly polluting, and these resources are finite. It is therefore essential to reintegrate materials into a circular economy loop to reduce the need for new resources. By recycling, materials are transformed for another life cycle and the loop is repeated as many times as possible, avoiding ending up in landfill and requiring more new resources and ever more space to landfill materials that are not reintegrated.