The city is testing the Hefty EnergyBag program in nine neighbourhoods, covering about 13,000 households. The pilot project will allow residents to recycle a long list of products that are not covered by the regular blue box program, including candy wrappers, foam containers, plastic straws and stirrers, food bags, and more.

“They’re primarily your soft plastics, like flexible plastic packaging, like a juice pouch or the bag around your loaf of bread,” Jay Stanford, the city’s director of solid waste, told the CBC.