The Government of Alberta is Gathering Input on a Regulatory Approach for Collecting and Regulating Agricultural Plastics Waste

Agricultural plastic products include, but are not limited to: 

• crop input packaging such as pesticide and fertilizer containers, drums, totes, and seed and inoculant bags, and 

• plastics to store agricultural outputs such as grain bags, twine, bale, wrap, net wrap and silage plastics

While agricultural plastics waste recycling opportunities are currently in place for select products, they are voluntary or temporary pilot project approaches. Shifting to a regulatory approach would provide long-term certainty for material management, a level playing field for plastic producers, and economies of scale to better support processing facilities.

Discover more and link to the survey here: Government of Alberta - Managing Agricultural Plastics Waste through a Regulatory Approach