How to Prepare for Your Recycling Pick Up
Preparing for your pick up takes just a few minutes...
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We appreciate you taking time to prepare your items. It keeps everyone safe, protects your data, and ensures we can recycle as much as possible.
Important: We can't take original boxes, plastic bags or Styrofoam!
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Remove all items from plastic bags or original packaging. It can add over an hour to our run to remove it all and we can't take the disks, bags and stuff inside.
Especially the little plastic bags on cords or cables.
We get thousands of items each week so unwrapping them would take days.
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For Film or X-rays
Remove all reports, CDs or other papers from the folder. Group all X-rays in one or a few folders or in another bag. We will leave the folders as we do not recycle paper.
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Please do not leave multiple X-rays in individual folders. We often are going to 10-20 houses in a run. If we have to remove the X-rays from each house that adds hours to our drive time.
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Do I need to drill my hard drive to protect the data?
No need to drill a hole or take apart your data device. Drilling releases fine particles and even vapours from lead, cadmium and other toxins. For your safety please don't drill.
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Any item containing data that can be reused is reset or securely wiped using Active@KillDisk.
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Items that can't be reused are fully shredded and smelted to become raw materials for manufacturing. No data survives either process.
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Have more items than you originally booked?
No problem! Feel free to add anything from our list. If it ends up being 1/4 a van load or more send us a text or email to let us know.
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Wondering why we left your items?
If an item is left out that we can't recycle, we'll simply leave it behind.
There are logistical, safety and legal reasons why we can't take some of those items. The ones on our list are what we're able to accept. Other small household appliances can be added to the ones on our list. See our FAQ page for a more detailed explanation.
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Why should I box things if you leave the cardboard boxes? Can I use bags?
The cardboard boxes helps keep small items together. It also protects your items from being stolen, crawled into by bugs, rained on or peed on by animals.
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If you want to use plastic bags or boxes, we'll leave them behind as we bring reusable buckets.
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.Sometimes we run out of buckets and so having the cardboard as a back up is also useful.
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