Can food-contaminated paper or styrofoam plates, napkins and paper towels be recycled?
None of these items are recyclable with Irving's blue bag program. The paperboard tube inside your paper towels can be recycled, however.

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1. Can we put plastic grocery bags, like those used at the checkout to sack our groceries, in our weekly blue recycling bag?
2. Can we put styrofoam in the blue bag?
3. Can we put produce plastic bags, such as the ones found in a grocery store's produce department, in in our weekly blue bag?
4. Is it OK to put food waste in the recycling blue bag, or should we wash plastic containers, such as yogurt containers, before putting them in the blue bag?
5. Can food-contaminated paper or styrofoam plates, napkins and paper towels be recycled?