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Serena Klippenstein joined the Cleanfarms team as a project coordinator to help the organization implement recycling programs for Manitoba producers.
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New face, new focus for Cleanfarms in Manitoba

Recycler adds staff member to co-ordinate shift to retail collection away from municipal sites

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Cleanfarms is stepping up efforts to transition recycling depots to retail outlets instead of municipalities. The stewardship organization is responsible for collecting used agricultural plastics for recycling. In June it announced a plan to gradually transition its Manitoba sites at municipal transfer stations and landfill facilities to agricultural retail operations. [READ MORE] Manitoba nearly doubles recycled ag plastics
Ag retailers will supply producers with a large (and free) plastic bag that can hold about 
45 small pesticide and fertilizer containers.
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Farm retailers take over collection of ag plastic jugs

Dropping off jugs at ag retailers will be more convenient, says Cleanfarms

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The locations for dropping off ag plastic jugs in Manitoba is being moved entirely to ag retailers instead of municipal landfills and transfer stations, says the organization that runs the recycling program. “Transitioning to a retail-based collection for the jug program shifts responsibility to accept empty containers from Manitoba municipalities to the ag industry, which
One Cleanfarms program collects old, leftover pesticides and expired farm animal medications. In fall 2022, the program will continue in British Columbia’s Peace River region, northern Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Newfoundland.
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Manitoba nearly doubles recycled ag plastics

Cleanfarms celebrated a banner year across Canada, according to its annual report

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Manitoba farmers recycled nearly double the ag plastics in 2021 compared to the year before, the recent Cleanfarms annual report says. “Cleanfarms can celebrate 2021 as a year where we hit the high water mark virtually across the entire spectrum of all we do to advance sustainability in agriculture,” wrote executive director Barry Friesen and
Agriculture plastics are an area Cleanfarms hopes to expand its recycling rate in the coming years.
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Ag diploma students meet with Cleanfarms

A class project turned into a real-life demonstration of how to affect change

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Learning about developing farm policy and lobbying isn’t just theoretical for Reg Dyck’s ‘Issues in Agriculture and Food’ class of about 40 students studying for a diploma in agriculture at the University of Manitoba. “I think this has been a really good experience in a number of ways,” Dyck said Feb. 8 after his class met online
Cleanfarms already captures 75 per cent of small chemical containers in Canada, and aims to get to 100 per cent.
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Lessons learned at KAP meeting

Ag diploma students took a resolution to KAP and taught everyone — including this reporter and themselves — a few things

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Corrected, Feb. 9 — As resolutions go it was ‘mom and apple pie.’ But I was paying close attention, as it was from Reg Dyck’s ‘Issues in Agriculture and Food’ class for agriculture diploma students at University of Manitoba. Two other reporters and I were to question the students during an online media ‘scrum’ two
Source: Cleanfarms.
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Older grain bags and used baler twine can still be recycled

The start of a new permanent program in Manitoba doesn’t affect existing efforts

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If Manitoba farmers have empty grain bags or used baler twine around the farm, there is still time to tidy up and recycle them before the full onset of winter, Cleanfarms says. “It doesn’t matter if the grain bags were purchased this year, or if they were left over from previous years,” Barry Friesen, Cleanfarms executive director, said.
Cleanfarms aims to collect and recycle more bale wrap across Canada.
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Cleanfarms completes count of Canadian ag plastics

Manitoba agriculture generates about seven per cent of ag plastic in Canada

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The count is in. Canada produces just under 62,000 tonnes of agriculture plastic a year, and Cleanfarms hopes to collect it all. “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” Barry Friesen, executive director of Cleanfarms, told the Co-operator. “Our goal is to move towards collecting all of the agricultural plastics and we need to know
Agriculture has not escaped the pressure to cut back or find alternatives for plastics, including commonly used products like bale wrap.
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Agriculture an opportunity in the push against plastics

Agricultural residues are often critical pieces in bioplastics, including products now being developed as plastic alternatives for agriculture and agri-food

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The world according to bioplastic developers would look a lot more cyclical. In an age of campaigns against single-use plastic, zero-waste social media influencers and increased public interest in sustainable packaging, bioplastics — which replace polymers from fossil fuels with biological sources — have been touted as a biodegradable and sustainable alternative. But as much
A new recycling program has been announced for grain bags and bale twine in Manitoba.
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Agri-plastic recycling program launched

Bale twine and grain bags will be accepted under the new provincially regulated program

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Manitoba is looking to recycle more agricultural plastics. On May 26, the province announced the launch of an agri-plastics stewardship program targeting grain bags and bale twine, to be managed by agricultural recycling organization Cleanfarms. “What this means, really, is that farmers have access to a reliable program and one that’s going to be available year over year to recycle their grain
Manitoba farmers recycled 38.4 tonnes of grain bags, twine and bale and silage wrap in 2020.
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Cleanfarms Manitoba sees slight recycling dip in 2020

Canada-wide, Cleanfarms has recycled enough containers to stretch around the world 1.3 times

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Manitoba farmers recycled 38.4 tonnes of grain bags, twine, and bale and silage wrap in 2020, down from about 51 tonnes in 2019, says Cleanfarms’ 2020 report. The ag recycling organization attributes the dip to COVID-19 restrictions and lower spring volumes. Canada-wide, collection was on par or slightly up in many categories. Producers returned more

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