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Chip bags and candy wrappers
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In Calgary, put this in the
Black cart — Garbage
Foil-lined snack packaging is not recyclable — put it in the black cart.
Also searched as: chip bag, candy wrapper, granola bar wrapper.
Why the black cart?
Snack packaging is a multi-layer laminate — plastic fused to metallized film — and no mechanical process can peel those layers apart. The shiny inside is the giveaway: if it’s silvery and crinkly, it’s a laminate and it’s garbage.
Get it right
- The scrunch test works here too: these wrappers spring back open instead of staying crumpled.
- Don’t bundle them into your bag of bags — crinkly bags contaminate the stretchy-film stream.
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