Aluminum baking pans can be recycled in many areas, but they must be empty and clean. So it’s important to make sure food residue is gone. This article is making the point that these types of pans are very good to reuse several times instead of tossing after one use. Make sure to check with your local recycling program to make sure they are accepted before tossing them in your bin.

The issue with that foil would be that it would definitely be quite dirty from the cheese. If you were to get it completely clean, it seems like a thicker foil than typical, so it may have some sort of lining. You can check directly with your recycling program to see if they would accept it, but when in doubt, throw it out.

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Each recycling facility has different machinery to process materials, therefor some may use more intense equipment that cannot handle aluminum foil but may be able to still accept more rigid foil containers. You could call your actual program to see how their specific equipment works. Occasionally some facilities will even give tours!