New locations added to Alberta’s Ag-plastic recycling program

Oct 27, 2020 | 1:10 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB. — Another six collection sites have been added to the “Alberta Ag-plastic – Recycle it” program. The new locations were opened in early October, to accept empty agricultural grain bags and used twine for recycling. That brings the total number of collection sites in Alberta to 26.

The six new sites include:

Clear Hills County at the Cleardale Transfer Station
County of Forty Mile No. 8 at the Foremost Transfer Station
County of Minburn at the Mannville Waste Transfer Station
Cypress County at the Hilda Transfer Station
Flagstaff County at the Flagstaff Waste Regional Landfill
MD of Provost at the Provost Regional Landfill

The list of all 26 sites can be found on the Cleanfarms website on the ‘Alberta Ag-plastic. Recycle It!‘ pilot program page. Most existing sites are currently taking rolled, tied grain bags of any size, and twine for recycling. Some, however, just take grain bags and a few take only twine.

Cleanfarms’ Executive Director Barry Friesen, says the pilot is on track to expand further recycling collection sites. “Ensuring Alberta farmers have every opportunity to recycle these plastic ag materials is imperativ,e and plastics used in these agricultural tools are valuable resourcess and should be recovered and recycled in a circular economy.”

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Cleanfarms operates the ‘Alberta Ag-plastic. Recycle It!‘ pilot on behalf of the Agricultural Plastics Recycling Group (APRG) and started collection in October 2019. The project is being funded through a grant from the Government of Alberta and administered by Alberta Beef Producers.

Stacey Barrows, who farms 4,300 acres in the County of Forty Mile with her husband Brent, in the southeast corner of Alberta, said farmers always want to be good stewards of their land.

“If we want our families to be able to stay on the farm, we need to think about the environment as a whole — the land, water, and air. We all need to recycle not only to keep our farms healthy, but also to teach younger generations to be stewards of the land, too,”

by Dori Modney