Cleanfarms , a Canada - wide stewardship administration best sleep together for its ag - plastics recycling curriculum for pesticide and plant food jug and totes and grain dish has open an Alberta office in Lethbridge .
“ Alberta ’s importance as an executive hub for agricultural industry is growing . That merge with its place as a Prairie power station for agriculture in Canada , point to the need for Cleanfarms to have foot on the reason in the province , too , ” say General Manager Barry Friesen .
Cleanfarms currently has offices in Quebec , Ontario and Saskatchewan .
The Lethbridge function will be staff by Davin Johnson , an environmental scientist who grow up in Alberta and has worked for the preceding decennium in the responsibility ’s oil and gasolene , academic , government and agrarian sector . He holds a Bachelor of Science in Geography from the University of Lethbridge .
Already familiar with Cleanfarms programs , Davin has helped to prepare Cleanfarms ’ Unwanted Pesticide and Livestock / Equine Medication Collection program , which collects sometime and disused pesticides and animal health medications from Farmer for safe electric pig , and the newly launched ‘ Alberta Ag - plastic . Recycle it ! ’ fender political program that has commissioned 20 locations throughout the province to take in caryopsis bags and twine for recycling . Cleanfarms engage the pilot on behalf of the Alberta - based Agricultural Plastics Recycling Group .
“ With the grain bag and string recycling program now underway in a progressive province that is develop waste direction and producer responsibility programs , it ’s a logical and important next stride for Cleanfarms to have an Alberta - based office , ” Friesen say .
Cleanfarms , which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year , is the only industry funded organization working across Canada that develops and operates wastefulness ware and promotional material stewardship for the agrarian residential district . It utilize a Brobdingnagian web of diligence distributer , ag - retail merchant and in Alberta and Manitoba , municipalities , to operate aggregation sites where Farmer can take silver - waste plastics and other non - constitutive , ag - waste materials for recycling or proper disposal .
Cleanfarms was show specifically to start the successful pocket-size jug recycling programme in the first place make in 1989 . The jug recycling program is Cleanfarms ’ signature national agricultural recycling program with a 65 % recovery rate . Other ag - waste direction programs include :
For more info : Cleanfarms400 - 10 Four Seasons PlaceEtobicoke , ON Canada M9B 6H71 877 622 4460[email protected]cleanfarms.ca
