Videos

FARMERS – How to Compact Your Silage Plastics
FARMERS – Learn more about how to prepare and drop off your used grain bags for recycling with Cleanfarms.

FARMERS – Find out more about how to prepare used baler twine before dropping it off at a collection site to be recycled.
FARMERS – When your seed, pesticide & inoculant bags are empty please bring them to a Cleanfarms collection site where you can drop them off free of charge so they can be recycled or safely disposed. It’s easy and we’ll show you how here!
RETAILERS – Find out all you need to know to include seed, pesticide and inoculant bags in your Cleanfarms collection program.
Using a manual compactor helps compress ag plastics, reduce contamination and facilitate transportation to collection sites. Find out how to use a compactor in this video.
Working with partners across Canada to support sustainable agriculture coast to coast!

Ag recycling – it’s easy to do when you know how and the prep-steps really matter. Let’s make it 100% – recycle every jug!

Barry Friesen described impacts of COVID-19 on ag recycling for House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance: April 17, 2020.

Farmers now have a place in Alberta to take grain bags and twine for recycling.

With global demand dwindling, Canada needs a domestic use for recycled farm plastic

In 2019, Cleanfarms celebrated 30 years of collecting plastic containers 23L & under for recycling.

Cleanfarms is partnering with Aspen Innovation Park (AB) to recycle grain bags and plastics. It’s just the start…

inpEV, CleanFARMS’ Brazilian counterpart, works closely with farmers, manufacturers and distributors to deliver a world class collection and recycling program for empty pesticide containers. With strong support from all stakeholders, Brazil has achieved a return rate of over 90%. An interactive view of Brazil’s program is available above.

Learn more about Ontario’s obsolete pesticide and farm animal medication collection program.