The City of Yellowknife is committed to providing 7 days per week, 24 hours per day access to six recycling blue bin stations located around the city for residential recycling materials. All commercial contractors and businesses must bring their recycling materials to the Solid Waste Facility for appropriate disposal during the commercial contractor access hours.
Lets all work together in reducing, reusing and recycling waste!
Why Recycling is Important
On a world scale, recycling used materials into new products helps reduce the strain and impact on the environment. Recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, extends the life of landfills, creates jobs while saving energy and conserving natural resources.
Benefits to Recycling in Yellowknife
Endless access to six recycling blue bin stations helps encourage residents to reduce the volume of waste going into household black garbage carts which are emptied and brought to the Solid Waste Facility. Recycling helps extend the amount of time the Yellowknife landfill can be used before a new one is required.
Where to Recycle For Free in Yellowknife
- Blue Bin Stations: Recycle your household cardboard, mixed paper, newspaper, glass, tin cans and plastics #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7. Please place correct materials into each bin to avoid incorrect mixing.
- Beverage Container Program: Get cash back for bringing bottles and cans to the Bottle Shop Recycling Depot
- Electronics Recycling Program: Over 500 plug-in products are accepted at the Bottle Shop Recycling Depot. Computers, tablets, TVs, Batteries, Cellphones go to the Bottle Shop Recycling Depot
- Expanded Electronics and Electrical Product Recycling: Smaller batteries, computers and monitors, TVs, microwaves, fans, lamps, printers, and over 500 other plug-in products (even solar panels!) are accepted free of charge at the Bottle Shop Recycling Depot
The City strongly encourages all residents to participate in the recycling electronics via The Government of the Northwest Territories Electronics Recycling Program. Currently, an additional Expanded Electronic and Electrical Product Recycling Pilot Project accepts a list of over 500 products that can be brought to The Bottle Shop Recycling Depot during regular business hours.
For information on how to recycle many other products in the City of Yellowknife, please view our Residential Recycling Guide.
This Waste Wizard helps you understand and figure out what items go into each blue bin