• Holiday Hours
• What can be be recycled
• Location & Hours
• How to get a Blue Box, Backyard Composter, Green Bin or Indoor Organics Container
• Hazardous Waste
• Goodwill Donation Centres

 

Holiday Hours

The Markham Village, Thornhill and Unionville Recycling Depots will be open on Thursday, December 24th from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. All Depots will be closed on Friday, December 25th and open on Saturday, December 26th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and closed on January 1st New Years Day.

• All Blue Box Materials
• All Plastic Containers, Bottles & Jars (#1-7)
• Aluminum Foil, Trays & Plates 
• Cellular Phones 
• Empty Aerosol Cans
• Empty Paint Cans
• Ink Cartridges
• Plastic Bags - Read all about it
• Plastic Pails - Read all about it
• Portable Propane Cylinders (when used with Green Key Tool) Read all about it
• Polystyrene Plastic #6
• Scrap Metal
• Styrofoam 
• Tires (maximum of four)
• Used Clothing
  (Bins located in the Milliken Mills & Thornhill Community Centre parking lots.)
• Used Fluorescent Tubes & Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs - Read all about it
• Rechargeable Batteries (Alkaline batteries should be taken to the Household Hazardous Waste Depot for disposal).
  Learn more about this program 
  Ni-Cd Nickel Cadmium, Pb Small Sealed Lead, Ni-MH Nickel Metal Hydride, Li-ion Lithium Ion  All batteries must be rechargeable and have one of the above four symbols on them.  Examples of these are cell phone batteries, cordless drill batteries and laptop computer batteries.

Unionville Depot
Unionville Main Street
(Main St. at Station Lane - east by the train tracks)

Monday     10 a.m. -  6 p.m.
Tuesday    12 p.m. -  8 p.m.
Thursday   12 p.m. -  8 p.m.
Saturday     8 a.m. -  4 p.m.

Thornhill Depot
5 Green Lane
(Bayview at Green Lane)

Tuesday       12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Wednesday    8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday      12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday        8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Markham Depot
6041 Highway 7 East
(Highways 7 & 48)

Monday          8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Tuesday       12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Wednesday    8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday      12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday        8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Milliken Mills Drop-Off Centre
7660 Kennedy Road
(Behind the Milliken Mills Community Centre)

Friday         10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday       8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Composters, Green Bins & Blue Boxes are available at all Recycling Depots.

Blue boxes can be purchased at all Recycling Depots and at the Angus Glen, Thornhill, Centennial and Milliken Mills Community Centres or at the Markham Civic Centre.  Both regular ($6.00) and Jumbo ($8.00)Blue Boxes are available.  Broken Blue Boxes can be exchanged free of charge at Recycling Depots ONLY.

Learn more about Blue Box Recycling

Backyard Composters can be purchased at any of the Recycling Depots (while supplies last).

Learn more about Composting

Green Bins and Indoor Organics Containers can be purchased at all Recycling Depots and at the Angus Glen, Thornhill, Centennial and Milliken Mills Community Centres.  Please note that Green Bins are not available at the Markham Civic Centre.  Green Bins are $18.00 and Indoor Organics Containers are $5.00 each.

Learn more about Green Bins & Mission Green

Payment

• Recycling Depots will accept cheques and Interac only (no cash). 
• Markham Civic Centre will accept cheques, Visa or MasterCard or cash. 
• Community Centres accept cash and cheques only.

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