Accepted materials

Raw, cooked or spoiled foods and green waste 

• Fruits and vegetables
• Meat and poultry with or without bones
• Fish and bones, seafood and shells
• Grain products such as dough, bread, cake, and rice
• Eggs and eggshells
• Solid dairy products (cheese, butter and yogurt)
• Tea leaves or coffee grounds with paper bags or filters
• Nuts and shells
• Cookies, sweets and desserts
• Pet food
• Spices and herbs
• Green waste (leaves, grass, garden waste, small branches)

Only in the following boroughs: Lachine, L’Île-Bizard—Sainte-Geneviève, Pierrefonds-Roxboro and Saint-Laurent

Soiled paper and cardboard

• Tissues, paper towels, napkins
• Paper tablecloth, cardboard or wooden dishes
• Food boxes
• Cardboard fruit baskets

Refused materials

• Plastic bags (including compostable bags for Lachine, L’Île-Bizard—Sainte-Geneviève, Pierrefonds-Roxboro and Saint-Laurent)
• Plastic dishes and containers, compostable or not
• Polystyrene and plastic wrapping
• Liquids (soup, milk, juice, coffee, etc.)
• Animal litter and waste
• Diapers and sanitary products
• Clothing and fabrics
• Cork, wax, hot ashes, cigarette butts
• Chewing gum
• Recyclable materials (clean paper, packaging and cardboard containers, plastic, metal and glass)
• Construction and renovation materials (earth, rock, sand, wood, ceramic, porcelain)
• Medicines and biomedical waste
• Household hazardous waste (batteries, paints, non-vegetable oils and greases)