Safeway accepts plastic bags for recycling at retail locations.

Paper bags can be recycled throughthe city's Blue box recycling program.

Find out what’s recyclable in your community: SimplyRecycle.ca

Plastic bagsdo not break down easily in landfill sites. Therefore, please reuse them to the maximum and dispose of with your regular garbage.

Lead-acid batteries range in size from 2 kilograms in small emergency lighting systems to 20 kilograms in an average passenger vehicle to thousands of kilograms in some industrial applications. These automotive and industrial lead-acid batteries are eligible for recycling under the Canadian Battery Association (CBA) Stewardship Program.

To drop off your lead-acid batteries visit CBA’s website: www.recyclemybattery.ca for Consumer Drop Off Sites (go to the “Find a Battery Recycler” tab and enter your town/city for a location nearest you).

All used, ready-to-serve beverage containers, including beverage containers made of aluminum, glass and plastic, PET, HDPE, and cartons (juice boxes, and gable-top cartons) can be recycled.

Please contact the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA) that operates the Recycle Everywhere program in Manitoba for additional information.

Preserve (a US based company) and Brita have teamed up to collect and recycle Brita® pitcher filters & bottle filters. Preserve transforms the recycled plastic from the filters into new Preserve products. Please follow the steps below for recycling Brita filters:

1. Save 3 used Brita® pitcher filter cartridges for each shipment. Only a maximum of 3 filters per package will be accepted (maximum weight 750g).

2. Dry the used filters by shaking off excess water and setting them in a dry place for at least a week before packaging them for shipping.

3. Wrap the used Brita® filter cartridges in a plastic grocery bag, and then pack them in a box. If possible, please reuse the original box that you purchased the Brita® filters in to package the used filters for return (boxes and bags will be recycled). If the original packaging is not available, please use a parcel that is a similar size and shape to avoid excess packaging.

4. Print out the Brita® pre-paid shipping label and bar code and affix the label to the package.

5. Drop the package off at the nearest Canada Post mailbox.

Brita will collect the used filters and ship large batches to Preserve for recycling up to two times a year. 

Bulky items such as mattresses, box springs, chairs, couches and other furniture, fridges, freezers, stoves, dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, air-conditioners and other large appliances will not be picked up with your regular garbage collection. Contact 311 to arrange for special collection. A fee may apply.

Appliances that are well functioning and less then seven years old may be accepted at Habitat for Humanity Re-Store. Please call (204) 233-5160 or visit this link to to find out what appliances are accepted as donations.