Is your garbage...
really garbage?

Is there something in your garbage that really isn't garbage?
Chances are... YES
If you would like a brochure in French, please
contact the Municipal Office at 1-902-787-2274

CLICK HERE
for your copy of the
"Inverness County RECYCLING NEWS"
this also contains an updated sort list

Cape Breton's Toll-Free Recycling Hotline
1-877-567-1337

Enviro Depots:

(You are encouraged to bring redeemable beverage containers to your local enviro-depot for a refund. There are no refunds available when using the blue bag program)

Call the depot nearest you for their hours of operation.

Poirier Bottle Exchange, Cheticamp, 224-1827

Inverness Enviro-Depot, Inverness, 258-3225

Admiral Enviro-Depot, Port Hood, 787-3494

Blue Bag pickup is on your regular collection day. Place the blue bag next to your regular garbage.

Backyard Composting is also recycling

Composting is simply allowing nature to take its course by returning organic material to where it came from, the soil. Almost anything that is, or was, alive is organic.

Composting takes very little effort, just a slight change in some of our daily habits. You do not have to work hard at composting because it is a natural process, something that simply happens. It is not really something that we do. We simply create the opportunity for compost to make itself.

About one third of all our garbage is organic material like leaves, food scraps, boxboard, and garden waste. Organics decay without oxygen in landfills and cause problems when they are exposed to water and form a liquid called leachate. Keeping organics out of landfills is one way to reduce environmental risks.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT COMPOSTING OR RECYCLING PLEASE CALL
CAPE BRETON'S TOLL-FREE RECYCLING HOTLINE 1-877--567-1337