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Recycle Now Contest! Winners
Kindergarten to Grade 2 Help the Earth! (A Rap) Help the earth stay alive! Keep the water clean so we can dive! You can help to work on having clean air, Ride your bike everywhere! Please help the bears by sharing and caring, Rethink – Don’t shoot! Reduce, Reuse don’t throw away! If the [...]
MMSM Bag Up Manitoba – Plastic Bag Roundup Challenge 2010
Take Pride Winnipeg!, and Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba would like to thank everyone for making the 2010 Bag Up Manitoba — Plastic Bag Round-Up Challenge an absolute success. The program has grown enormously, and for the first time, the program was expanded to schools throughout Southern Manitoba and also to Flin Flon. The overwhelming response from [...]
Recycle Now Contest
Recycle Up Contest Posters (English and French)
Bag Up Manitoba – Schools Respond to Challenge
134 schools province wide accepted the challenge to divert plastic bags from landfills. Here’s what some teachers had to say about the program: “What a great project and our school really enjoyed it. It made us think about the use of plastic bags and our awareness is heightened for sure! Thanks for organizing this event.” [...]
Portage la Prairie set to become Model Recycling Community
The City of Portage la Prairie in conjunction with Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA) and Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba (MMSM)are pleased to announce that Portage la Prairie has been selected to become a showcase community for recycling. The enhanced Blue Box container recovery project will focus on away-from-home beverage container recycling.
Waste Reduction Week is Oct. 18 – 24!
Waste Reduction Week is an annual event each October that encourages schools, businesses, organizations and individuals to take steps to improve the environment. There’s a lot you can do: Recycle your cell phone; ditch the disposable coffee cups; turn off the lights when you leave a room. Learn more and get ideas on how you [...]
MMSM presents Bag Up Manitoba – Plastic Bag Roundup Challenge
In partnership with Take Pride Winnipeg, MMSM is challenging students to collect as many plastic shopping bags as possible and bring them to school for recycling. In previous years, students in approximately 90 urban and rural schools collected more than 450,000 bags over a two-week period! This year, more than 100 schools are expected to [...]
Manitobans Challenged to Boost Recycling
Ad Campaign Encourages Citizens to “Clean Up Their Act” A new ad campaign launching in communities across the province next week will encourage Manitobans to boost their recycling rates. The “Clean Up Your Act” campaign acknowledges that many Manitobans already recycle, but challenges them to go even further and recycle everything they can. “Surveys show [...]
Recycle Now Contest 2012!