Thanks to Shell Canada's $200,000 six-year sponsorship of the program (2006-2011), local residents are provided with free blue recycling bags, called ‘Shell Recycling Sacks’, once per year through home delivery by the First Fort Saskatchewan Scouts organization or by pick up at any city facility throughout the year.
The blue bag program allows area residents to recycle a large variety of household materials including plastics #1-7, clean tin cans and aluminum foil, all clean paper products, boxboard, cardboard, glass bottles and jars. Blue bag recycling is an easy and cost effective recycling program available to residents where they simply place all dry, clean recyclable materials into the Shell Recycling Sacks each week. Once full, the bag can then be deposited curbside along with other household garbage on designated waste collection pick up days.
Items that should not be placed in blue bags include pizza boxes, wax cardboard, mirrors, paint cans, styrofoam or any container that has contained hazardous materials. Other items such as batteries, tires, propane bottles, branches, grass clippings, used oil, paint, metals and electronic waste can be taken to the Recycle Station located at 8906 – 111 Street.
* Picture above includes Mayor Jim Sheasgreen and Randy Provencal, Senior Communications Advisor, Shell Canada, October 2008.
Some common questions and answers regarding the program are listed below.