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Agricutural-plastic recycling pilot running in Alberta

Environment: News Roundup from the January 2020 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 14, 2020

Alberta producers stockpiling plastic twine and grain bags now have some options. The Alberta Ag-Plastic Recycle It pilot is a three-year program, funded by the provincial government and administered by the Alberta Beef Producers. Producers can drop off plastic at 20 collection sites around the province. Details on collection sites are online at the Collection […] Read more

A federal ban on plastic bags won’t extend to bags such as these, shown here at a recycling depot, stewardship group Cleanfarms says. (CNW Group/Cleanfarms photo)

Crops, Machinery

Agricultural plastics not part of federal ban

By GFM Staff June 14, 2019

The federal government’s plan to halt Canada’s consumption of single-use plastics such as shopping bags, straws and stir sticks over the next couple of years won’t extend to farm chemical containers and grain bags. Cleanfarms, the national industry stewardship body operating waste management and recycling programs for agricultural packaging, said Thursday that plastic products such […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

McDonald’s sets greenhouse gas reduction targets

By Lisa Baertlein March 20, 2018

Reuters — McDonald’s Corp. on Tuesday announced what it describes as an approved, science-based target to cut greenhouse gas emissions and battle climate change, saying it is the first restaurant company to do so. Under a plan several years in the making, the fast-food company — along with its franchisees and suppliers — aims to […] Read more

Livestock, News Roundup

Say good riddance to your old livestock meds

Location of collection sites for each province to be announced this summer

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff June 12, 2015

CleanFARMS and the Canadian Animal Health Institute (CAHI) will once again be offering collection of obsolete (old, unwanted) livestock medications in conjunction with the obsolete pesticide collection program. The 2015 schedule takes the program to the Okanagan, Interior and Kootenay regions of British Columbia, Red Deer-south region of Alberta, Davidson-north region of Saskatchewan and across […] Read more

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Agricutural-plastic recycling pilot running in Alberta

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McDonald’s sets greenhouse gas reduction targets

Say good riddance to your old livestock meds

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