Can a vented (empty and open) propane cylinder be recycled?
A cylinder with a Green Key® tool inserted in the valve can be considered to be scrap metal. However, because most municipalities do not yet have the ability to segregate vented cylinders from sealed cylinders, they may not accept them in their blue box programs at this time. All municipalities have the objective of diverting used cylinders from the landfill stream and may use other methods to collect the cylinders with Green Key® tools and recover the value of the scrap metal. Coleman Canada, a Division of Sunbeam Corporation (Canada) Ltd., is cooperating with municipalities to facilitate the collection of vented cylinders in curbside programs. Coleman Canada also is working with the scrap metal industry by providing technical information and data to assist in the diversion of the maximum number of empty cylinders from landfill to recovery and recycling.
