Local Waste Reduction News

Local Waste Reduction News

Waste reduction, reuse, composting, and recycling news from around Saskatchewan.                                                                                             

April 2025:

  • Canada and Saskatchewan Finalize a 10-Year Agreement funding community infrastructure including drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, and solid waste -- article link

  • Changes to blue bins passed at Regina city council -- article link
  • Here’s why some Regina condo owners may not have to compost for another two years -- article link
  • Saskatoon’s Environment Committee suggests SK Recycles govern recycling operations starting 2028 -- article link
  • Higher fees, shorter hours at Moose Jaw landfill approved by Council as replacement pressure builds -- article link
  • Assiniboia Trash talk – dump your old habits with these recycling options -- article link
  • Swift Current Repair Café sewed, bolted, and sealed up the leaky, slow, and damaged -- article link
  • Regina group fights food insecurity with care and community support -- article link
March 2025:

  • Changes coming to Regina's recycling program, including fines for banned materials in blue bins -- article link

  • Saskatoon one step closer to expanding elm wood disposal program -- article link
  • Saskatoon students fight food waste to support those in need -- article link
  • New landfill project will ‘absolutely’ begin this year, Moose Jaw city manager says -- article link
  • The future of Lloydminster’s Landfill considered -- article link
  • Weyburn set to transition to new recycling model -- article link
  • Sharing skills: SWRC Repair Cafe Weyburn volunteers share on helping out -- article link
  • Repair Café returning to Estevan with free fixes and a call for volunteers -- article link
  • Canora: Commercial property owners facing big garbage collection change -- article link
  • Yorkton residents about to pay more for refuse collection -- article link
  • Newest Prince Albert Hicks Gallery exhibit draws attention to waste, consumerism, and superficiality -- article link
 
February 2025:
  • Regina's contract terminated for permanent compost facility -- article link
  • Saskatoon ponders changes to garbage and organics collection for multi-unit housing -- article link
  • Major changes coming to Moose Jaw landfill in 2025 -- article link
  • Discussion continues on waste management solutions for Swift Current -- article link
  • Île-à-la-Crosse, Sask., company teams up with flies-as-food startup to provide fish guts as feed -- article link
  • Saskatoon company's app helps food banks track inventory and reduce waste -- article link
  • FlashFood app saves money, decreases waste says Regina grocer -- article link
  • A culture of repair: SWRC seeking volunteers for upcoming Weyburn Repair Cafe -- article link
 
January 2025:
  • Organic recycling bins approved by Yorkton council -- article link
  • A LOOK BACK: New landfill site rejected, placing ever-increasing pressure on Moose Jaw City Hall -- article link
  • What Saskatchewanians can and can't recycle during Christmas cleanup -- article link
 
December 2024:
  • SK Recycles partners with SARCAN to recycle glass, foam, flexible plastic -- article link
  • Award presented to U of S Professor for turning canola, oat and flax waste into high-value products -- article link
  • Swift Current Repair Café keeps the motor running, the lights on, and the gears spinning -- article link
  • Ituna rink group fined for illegal waste disposal -- article link
 
November 2024:
  • Moose Jaw city hall confident that landfill will close by 2030, if not sooner -- article link
  • Yorkton highlights recycling program, helping local residents retain work -- article link