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jan . 31, 2024 16:08 Back to list

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Can I Recycle Tea Tins, Coffee Cans and Cookie Tins?

 

Many readers ask “Can I recycle tea tins?” “Can I recycle popcorn cans?” “Can I recycle cookie tins?” “Can I recycle olive oil cans?” The types of metal cans that tea, coffee, biscuits, cookies, flavored popcorn, olive oil and other food products come in are usually made of steel (if a magnet sticks to it, it’s steel). Steel is the same material that soup cans and other types of canned food are made from, so it seems like they should be recyclable, but are they?

They’re not the same as soup cans

Steel cans and metal food tins are definitely recyclable, but whether or not you should put them in your curbside recycling pickup depends on your community and whether you do single stream recycling (all materials are placed in one bin rather than separated by type of material). Some recycling programs will accept these kinds of metal containers mixed in with the paper, plastic and other cans, but some do not.

My solid waste district asks us not to put these in our curbside recycling even though steel soup cans are okay. Check with your city or county recycling program or solid waste district, yours may be more lenient about the types of metal containers they will allow.

Regardless of whether or not these are acceptable in your curbside bin, or if you are unsure about the rules in your community, you can always take them to a metals recycling center, or many communities have a drop-off for scrap metals recycling.

Can I recycle aluminum foil?


Related: Can I Recycle Aluminum Foil?

Why won’t my community recycling take food tins?

Honestly, I have been trying to get an answer on this from my contacts at the county solid waste district, and they can only tell me that the Materials Recovery Facilities here (i.e. the recycling sorting centers), do not want these types of cans mixed in with our recycling. It could be that the coating on them or their shape causes them not to be sorted properly, or maybe they aren’t as valuable as plain steel soup cans and the like. We don’t know. (If someone from a MRF has a more concrete answers on this, please feel free to contact me. I like to be able to share the reasons behind the recycling policies whenever I can.)

What to do with used tea tins, coffee cans and cookie tins

These types of cans can be great for reuse projects, planters, pencil holders and so on. Here are some fun and creative reuse ideas for tea tins.

Still, there’s a limit to how many pencil holders and planters one household needs. So I keep a box for recycling scrap metals that I usually toss these into along with clean aluminum foil. When it gets filled up, I can take it to my city’s recycling drop off center where they will take scrap metals for recycling, or a local scrap metal recycler and get a little cash for it!


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