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Blue Box Recycling

Our blue box pick up and recycling services are provided by Bruce Area Solid Waste Recycling or BASWRA, a non-profit formed by Bruce County municipalities in 1990.

Collection for roadside blue box pick up is scheduled every two weeks, the date of pick up is dependent on where you live and can be found here:  2025 Blue Box/Recycling Schedule 

Blue Box recycling must be:

  • At the curbside or roadside by 6:30am for collection
  • Placed in a ‘lipped’ bin for sorting
  • At least one blue box must be at roadside
    • If necessary, overflow may be placed in additional non blue box bins, provided they are ‘lipped’ however just placing non blue box bins increases the risk of being missed
    • Overflow may also be sorted and bagged in clear garbage bags. Unsorted bagged recycling will not be taken. Note the bags will not be taken.
  • Items that are not accepted will be left in the blue box

Blue boxes can be purchased at the municipal office for a fee of $20.75 or at any hardware store.

Blue box materials can also be recycled at the landfill locations for free.

For a full list of accepted items, visit: Accepted Items and to sign up for email reminders for blue box day, visit: Email Reminders. Call the recycling hotline at 1-800-794-9770 if you have any additional questions or concerns. 

Hours

Thursdays
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Corrugated cardboard, film plastics, and Styrofoam can be dropped at the Depot. Clothing donations are no longer accepted at the Recycling Depot.

Address: 320 Highway 9, Walkerton, Ontario 

Accepted Items  

View the Walkerton Recycling Depot Accepted Items

Corrugated cardboard is not recyclable through blue box collection like box board and will not be picked up.

Flattening the boxes is required to ensure all available space is used. 

Corrugated cardboard can be recycled for free at any of the Brockton landfill sites and at the Walkerton Recycling Depot. 

Electronic Waste can be recycled for free at the Brant landfill site and at the Walkerton Recycling Depot. 

Film plastics make up a large portion of household waste and recycling them closes the loop allowing for consumer packaging that can be remanufactured into new materials. 

All plastic must be cleaned of food residue, with any stickers, paper and receipts removed. It is recommended to fill a recyclable bag with the film plastics to prevent loose material.

Film Plastics can be recycled for free at any of the Brockton landfill sites and at the Walkerton Recycling Depot.

All polystyrene must be clean with stickers and tape removed. Placing dirty polystyrene in the bins contaminates the surrounding recyclable materials.

Polystyrene can be recycled for free at the Walkerton Recycling Depot.

Printer cartridges can be recycled for free at the Walkerton Recycling Depot.

Recycling scrap metal helps conserve energy and resources and items that are mostly metal or completely metal are accepted, at the landfill attendant’s discretion, at the landfill locations.

Note: large appliances are not included within this program. 

The municipal landfill sites have a compost pile for household compost, yard waste and leaf collection. If depositing bagged compost, the only bags that are permitted are biodegradable Kraft paper waste bags. No plastic bags will be accepted.

Blue Box Transition

Ontario municipalities will transition to a producer-led Blue Box program under the province’s new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) model.  This means producers of recyclable materials will fully fund and operate the program.

What’s Changing?

Until December 31, 2025: No changes to collection schedules or accepted materials.

Starting January 1, 2026: Blue box collection will be collected by a contractor managed by Circular Materials, a non-profit representing producers. 

Collection schedules and accepted items are subject to change on January 1, 2026. Municipal staff will continue to update this page when new information is provided.

Your collection schedule and the materials you can recycle will remain unchanged until December 31, 2025. Starting January 1, 2026, Circular Materials may update the types of materials accepted in the new blue box program, though these changes are still to be confirmed. It is expected that the collection days will stay the same, however this will be confirmed at a later date.

For more information, visit Circular Materials’ webpage on advancing the circular economy.

No. There is no additional charge to residents to transition to the new blue box collection program on January 1, 2026.

The Municipality of Brockton will no longer collect blue box recycling as of January 1, 2026. For more information, visit Circular Materials’ webpage on advancing the circular economy.

The Government of Ontario introduced legislation that transforms the management and collection of Blue Box materials in the province. The Blue Box Regulation, enacted under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, is a cornerstone of Ontario’s Strategy for a Waste Free Ontario: Building the Circular Economy.

This regulation shifts the current cost-sharing model, which divides expenses between municipal taxpayers and producers of Blue Box materials, to a new system where producers are fully responsible for funding, operating, and meeting performance targets for the recycling program. Producers will be accountable for collecting and recycling Blue Box materials, reporting to the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA), and achieving progressively higher recycling targets.

By placing the full financial, operational, and performance responsibility on producers, this new approach creates a direct incentive to minimize waste and enhance recycling efforts, leading to reduced natural resource extraction, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Producers are companies that supply materials for the blue box program, including packaging, paper products, and packaging-like items made from paper, glass, metal, or plastic. These companies, who design, manufacture, and market products and packaging, are responsible for managing and funding the entire lifecycle of their products and packaging.

For more details, visit Circular Materials’ webpage on promoting the circular economy. 

Yes. Industrial, commercial, and institutional (ICI) waste is regulated separately from residential waste in Ontario, and is not eligible for collection by Circular Materials as per the Province of Ontario’s Blue Box Regulation

The Municipality is reviewing collection opportunities to IC&I properties and more information will be provided at a later date.

Until December 31, 2025, there are no expected changes to the accepted items list. After January 1, 2026, Circular Materials may update the types of materials accepted in the new blue box program, though these changes are still to be confirmed.

Contact Us

Municipality of Brockton
100 Scott Street, P.O. Box 68, 
Walkerton, Ontario N0G 2V0, Canada

Phone: 519-881-2223,
Toll Free: 1-877-885-8084,
Fax: 519-881-2991

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