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Recyclable Materials
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The Town of Canmore accepts the following items for recycling. For Drop off locations and other information about Recycling Facilities please click here. If the items you wish to recycle do not appear in this list please consider the following options:
Victory Thrift Store - For Clothing, household items etc.(Phone number :(403) 678-9801 and the Address:3 Industrial Place, Canmore)
Canmore Bottle Depot
Large Propane tanks may be returned to Shell, Petro-Canada or any Certified Propane Dealer. Small camping style propane tanks should be taken to the Toxic Roundup.
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 Acceptable Items: Automotive Batteries ONLY
Non-Acceptable Items: All other batteries should be sorted in the proper recycling containers.
An automotive battery, also referred to as a lead-acid battery, contains about 21 pounds of lead, 3 pounds of plastic and 1 gallon of sulfuric acid. These items can be toxic if handled improperly.
Batteries collected in Canmore are picked up by Independent Battery. At the battery recycling facility, spent or 'junk' batteries are broken apart and seperated into components to begin the recycling process. Plastic pellets, recycled from old battery cases and covers are used to manufacture new battery cases and covers. Lead ingots recycled from battery grids and lead oxide are used to manufacture new battery grids and components. Sodium sulphate crystals seperated from old battery acid are recycled and sold for use in textile, glass and detergent manufacturing. Battery covers and cases are manufactured for new batteries from recycled plastic. Battery grids are manufactured from recycled lead for use in new batteries. Recovered lead oxide is also used in new battery manufacturing.
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Accepted Items: Bicycle Tires (No inner tubes)
Non-Acceptable Items: All other types of tires. These should be taken (with rims removed) to the Francis Cooke Regional Landfill.
Bicycle tires are picked up and taken to Eco-Flex in Calgary. The tires go through a shredder machine that reduces the tires to 4" pieces. This product is shipped as is to some customers. Otherwise, the 4" pieces are transported to our crumbing machines where they essentially get ground into a fine rubber powder. This crumbed product is then used to produce a large variety of 100% recycled rubber products that are sold worldwide. |
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Corrugated Cardboard & Boxboard |
 Acceptable Items: Corrugated boxes (pizza boxes, appliance boxes, and electronic boxes),boxboard (cereal box, shoe box, tissue box and other cardboard packaging).
Non-Acceptable Items: Material that has been treated with wax, such as frozen food boxes, or any other laminate. Oil stained products or products with food residue are also not acceptable.
Cardboard and boxboard is collected, baled and transported to the appropriate recycling facilities in Vancouver and Washington. The cardboard goes into a big blender and is mixed up in large tanks. It is then processed back into sheets that go on the inside and outside of a typical cardboard box. |
 Acceptable Items:
Televisions
Computers, Monitors, Laptops
Computer Accessories (i.e. printers, scanners, fax machines)
Stereo Equipment
VCRs / DVD Players
Telephones & Fax Equipment
Cell Phones / Pagers
Kitchen appliances (Toasters, microwaves, coffee makers etc)
All chargers, cabels, adapters, powerbars etc.
Non-Acceptable Items: Fridges, Stoves and Freezers or large household items. Please see the Special programs page for Large Item Disposal.
With new technologies, what once was cutting edge is quickly becoming obsolete. In the past most of these old electronics were discarded into landfills. Unfortunately, many electronics contain hazardous materials, such as lead and mercury, and there are many materials that can be recycled. eWaste is shipped to Calgary where it is processed by eCycle Solutions.
eCycle Solutions transports the old electronics such as televisions, computers, printers, laptops, monitors etc. to the processing facility in Airdrie. Electronics are categorized, weighed and seperated for processing. Processing electronics involves a combination of manual and mechanical means. This ensures that eCycle Solutions maximizes recycling rates with over a 98% recovery rate of materials in electronics. Once processed, materials are seperated into commodities such as glass, plastics, wood, various metals and circuit boards. Commodities are shipped to secondary recycling for further processing in OECD nations and are made into brand new products.
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Fluorescent Lights and Ballast |
 Acceptable Items: All fluorescent tubes (u-shaped, short, long and compact fluorescent lights also known as CFLs), ballast.
Non-Acceptable Items: Standard light bulbs
Be very careful not to break or crush fluorescent light bulbs as they contain mercury. Once the ballast and wires are removed the metal housing can be recycled in the metal container. Commercial loads please call (403) 678-1580 to arrange a drop off time so we may set up the Bulb Eater and begin crushing. The Bulb Eater sucks the mercury into three filter systems leaving drums of crushed glass and metal end caps. The mercury, glass and metal are shipped and then recycled.
The mercury, glass and metal is shipped to Enviro-Sort in Edmonton for recycling. All glass is recycled into reflective beads for highway line painting or used for road base. Metal is re-melted and reused. The phosphor powder containing mercury and mercury containing ampoules is sent to a retort facility where the mercury is used for new bulbs and mercury switches. |
 Acceptable items: Clear and coloured glass including all glass jars, drinking glass, Pyrex™ and windowpanes. Sand based dinnerware such as pottery and ceramics. Broken Beer or beverage bottles are not acceptable for refund so may be recycled in this container.
Non-Acceptable items: Returnable beverage bottles such as beer and other beverage bottles which should be returned to the Canmore Bottle Depot for refund.
Please ensure all lids are removed and glass is rinsed and free of labels. For safety of handling, please use gloves and do not place glass in plastic bags, rather if possible, store in plastic containers or open boxes.
Following the collection and sorting process, all the glass gathered in Canmore is then transferred by truck to the Lafarge Canada Cement Plant in Exshaw, where it is crushed and placed in the kilns to be reduced to sizes then used in their cement aggregate process. |
 Acceptable items: Metal food cans, assorted metals such as small metal pieces, coat hangers, pie plates, empty dry paint cans and similar metal products.
Non-Acceptable items: Aluminum Beverage Cans/Containers (Including Juice, Beer, and Pop Cans) should be returned to the Canmore Bottle depot for refund or donated and placed in the appropriate recycling container.
At this time, please ensure all metal food cans are rinsed and free of paper labels. For safety purposes and to minimize cuts, ensure the lid is inserted into the can and pressed shut or simply leave the lid attached by not fully removing it in the process of opening the can.
The metal is collected, baled and transferred to the Francis Cook Landfill. Once a large quantity is collected the product is then sent to metal recyclers who crush and melt the metal in high temperatures and reshape it into food cans, fence posts, rebar, automobile parts etc. |
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