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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
Robert Shwaluk of Shoal Lake showcases a cattle trailer load of plastic silage wrap.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Shoal Lake cattle producer big on wrapped silage bales, but frowns on disposal requirements

Bale and silage wrap isn’t part of Manitoba’s provincially regulated ag plastics recycling program – yet

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A Shoal Lake cattle producer likes ‘marshmallows’ — silage bales wrapped with white plastic — but wishes it were easier to dispose of the wrap. Robert Shwaluk farms just east of the community. He’s rented most of his grain land to other farmers and focuses on his purebred Black Angus cattle, hay and pastures. Weather
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
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
Agricultural waste materials such as grain bags and plastic containers are being remade into things like drainage tiles and plastic bags.
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Canada’s agricultural industry growing the future of recycling

Proper stewardship is key to maintaining access to the plastics needed on farms

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Farmers earn their living from the land, and they work hard making sure their fields and farms remain healthy, well managed and free from litter and waste. This is an investment that benefits all of Canada, given the importance of our agricultural industry to feed our country and the world. While necessary to Canada’s agricultural
group of schoolchildren recycling
Country Crossroads

Earth Day should be celebrated every day

A Manitoba Hutterite Colony takes on the challenge of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’

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“I think I’ll be counting bags in my sleep tonight,” a seventh-grader chuckled. A group of us were on the floor in my classroom, around a mountain of plastic bags we were counting for the Bag Up Manitoba program. Since getting involved in this program some years ago, the most our school ever collected was
grain bags on a farm
Crops, Local news

Pilot program for recycling ag plastic kicks off this month

Farmers use more plastic than ever as a lower-cost method of storing grain and feed, but increased use means more plastic waste in the environment

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Hay is wrapped in it. Grain is stored in it. Twine holds it together. Plastic saves farmers time and money by reducing their storage costs, but the increasing amount used raises the question — what to do with it after you’ve used it? Municipalities don’t want large volumes of discarded agricultural plastic taking up space

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