Winnipeg Harvest launches plastic-bag recycling program
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A new program launched Thursday is intended to breathe life back into old plastic shopping bags.
Winnipeg Harvest launched Bag it Forward, in partnership with Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba. The program encourages shoppers to recycle their plastic shopping bags, which are then used to pack food hampers.
Winnipeg Harvest managing director Kate Brenner said the program will fill a dual purpose in the community.
“If you think about people who go to a grocery store and don’t have reusable bags, you could be looking at two to six (bags) a week,” Brenner said. “And if we can get those back and use them to send out hampers to hungry people, it is certainly going to help us and certainly going to keep them out of landfill.”
The organizations sends out about 61,000 food hampers every month and uses about one million plastic bags every year.
Shoppers will be able to recycle bags at about 380 different locations around Winnipeg and Manitoba.
Brenner said the program is an extension of the “reuse and reclaim” mandate of the organization.
“We are able to repurpose, and that is what we do. We try to do that with people, we get them here to volunteer after they become clients, and provide them with opportunities, and we reclaim food and repurpose that. Now we’re doing it with plastic bags, so it fits really well with what we do,” she said.
Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba is an industry-funded, non-profit organization that funds and operates province-wide residential recycling programs for packaging and printed paper, in accordance with the Packaging and Printed Paper Stewardship Regulation. Its goal is to promote the reduction, reuse and recycling of the materials managed in its program while increasing recovery rates.
For further information, visit www.stewardshipmanitoba.org or www.winnipegharvest.org.
kathleen.saylors@freepress.mb.ca