Garbage and Recycling

To find out when your scheduled curbside garbage collection day is, and where your garbage should be left for pick-up, please download the Residential Collection Schedule PDF. Collection days are subject to change due to holidays, extreme weather events, or mechanical breakdowns. 

Please note that all regular residential garbage bags must be tagged and put out for collection by 8:00 a.m. on your scheduled garbage collection day. 

For information about our landfill, please visit our Hidden Lake Landfill page.

The Municipality of Sioux Lookout offers residents bi-weekly recycling collection through a contract with B&M Delivery Services. Collection always begins at 8:00 a.m., however the date of pickup varies depending on the area of Sioux Lookout you reside in.

Collection takes place every second TUESDAY for Sioux Lookout residences north of the CN tracks.

Collection takes place every second THURSDAY for Sioux Lookout residences south of the CN tracks as well as Hudson, Hwy 72 and Alcona area. 

Some items, although they may have a recycle symbol, are not recyclable in Sioux Lookout, if you are not sure please check with Public Works at 737-1234 or the Municipal Office at 737-2700.

Please ensure that all containers are rinsed clean and free of food or residue.

If you put your recycling out the night before and it gets covered with snow, please remove the snow to make it easier for the driver of the recycle truck to see your recycling.

Every Day is Earth Day!  Let’s recycle!

Blue Box Recyclable Items:

• Plastic containers with a recycling triangle on the bottom containing the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 (rinsed out & CAPS/LIDS REMOVED (except HDPE #2);
• steel (tin) food cans (rinsed out);
• aluminum beverage cans (rinsed out); 
• polycoat (milk cartons, juice cartons, etc.) (rinsed out);
• tetrapaks (juice boxes, •etc.) (rinsed out); 
• newspapers and inserts, flyers, junk mail; 
• magazines, phone books, books (with the hard cover removed);
• shredded paper (in clear plastic or blue clear bags), household paper and envelopes; 
• flattened cardboard —no more than one meter (39 inches) in any direction;
• cardboard egg cartons and paper tubes; and
• FLATTENED boxboard — cereal, cracker, shoe, tissue, laundry, packing boxes.

Blue Box Non-Recyclable Items:

The items listed below will not be collected through the Blue Box recycle collection program:

• Glass;
• aerosol cans, propane bottles; 
• plastic screw caps/lids, toys, flower pots/plastic planting flats; 
• lawn furniture;
• Rubbermaid or Tupperware; 
• foil or foam takeout food containers;
• single use disposable coffee cups or lids; 
• waxed paper or cereal box liners;
• foam packaging, foam egg cartons or foam meat trays;
• aluminum foil or foil pie plates;
• scrap metal, hangers, metal toys or cookie sheets;
• anything containing a hazardous substance (motor oil, paint thinner, paint, batteries, etc.);
• all plastic bags including pet food or pellet bags, all cellophane (chip bags, candy wrappers, bubble wrap etc.);
• disposable diapers, paper towels, or tissues;
• Christmas wrap, bows and tissue paper; 
• cardboard containers that have a metal bottom or trim, such as Good Host Iced Tea, Pringles Chips or Maxwell House Coffee (unless they have an HDPE #2 symbol on the lid); 
• food scraps.