The City of Selkirk: Proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

City of Steinbach: Participation in Waste Reduction Week and the promotion of waste reduction initiatives.

The Town of Swan River: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

The City of Thompson: Proclamation of Waste Reduction Week, promotion of the event and the support of waste reduction, reuse, recycling, composting and other conservation measures.

Town of Morden: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week and promotion of the event.

Rural Municipality of Ochre River: Proclamation of Waste Reduction Week and promotion of the event in local schools.

Town of Virden: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week and promotion of the event.

Rural Municipality of St. Andrews: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

Town of Shoal Lake: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

Town of Roblin: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

Town of Beausejour: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

Town of Hamiota: Participation in Waste Reduction Week, promotion of the event and participation in the "Caught in the Act" contest.

City of Winkler: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week and promotion
of the event.

Town of Minitonas: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

City of Dauphin: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

Rural Municipality of Coldwell: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction
Week.

Town of Minnedosa: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

Town of Neepawa: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

Rural Municipality of Springfield: Official proclamation of Waste Reduction Week.

Town of Gillam

Village of Waskada

Argyle 4-H Beef Club: Our club members and family members, eagerly collect aluminum cans for refund and the funds are used for club activities, including ribbons at Achievement Day as well as hotdogs and fun! We also collect Ivomec containers for return. Our members are very committed to collecting recycling materials. Thank you, parents!
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Schools/Colleges/Universities

Smith Homeschooling Group: We will be having a round up of unwanted materials that can be donated or recycled. We will also be doing the waste audit to evaluate what we use each day and where/what we can do to improve. We are going to start our yearly reduce,reuse and recycle campaign. Also educating families and the community about the importance of waste reduction. Also recycling products around the home rather than throwing out, like tin coffee cans, can be turned into craft containors to hold anything from pencil crayons to glue sticks. Also reusing Kraft Dinner case holders by using them as file folder holders. Using our minds and creativity to come up with some imaginative but useful ways of reusing rather than wasting.

Red River Valley Junior Academy: Recycling containers in each classroom and the home-economics rooms.

Sargent Park School: Classroom Activities from Resource Kit, education/advertising week to parents/community, and waste audit.

University of Manitoba: Screening of environmental films, a used clothing drive for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Winnipeg, a fall campus clean-up and participation in the "Caught in the Act" contest.

University of Winnipeg: Participation in the "Caught in the Act" contest.

Brandon University: Participation in the "Caught in the Act" contest.

Red River College: Grand Giveaway' event where college materials no longer needed are distributed to staff and students. 'Too Good to Waste' library window display, showing all of the paper waste in the library during the week. 'Caught in the Act' contest.

St. Augustine School: The grade four students with the support of other students in the school collect and sort all waste products in the school. Once a day they go around the school to collect recycling bins for paper, misc items such as plastics and milk cartoons, and compost items. With the help of their teacher and school custodian they empty the bins into larger plastic lined container. There are no garbage cans in any of the classrooms because all waste material is sorted for recycling. On any given day a school of 210 students may only have a 3 litre bag of garbage to place in the dumpster destined for the landfill site.

Dr. George Johnson Middle School: The Green Team is having a contest. Get caught doing something "waste-reducing" (like reducing, reusing or recycling) and the Green Team will give you an entry ballot for the November Pizza Party prize. The winner and a friend will attend a pizza party at the school with the Green Team. We launched our fundraising calendar sale. We are selling Robert Bateman Contest calendars, sharing proceeds with the natural conservation-geared Robert Bateman Society.

College Pierre-Elliot-Trudeau: Starting a new student recycling committee to improve the recycling program. The school currently recycles paper, and will now also recycle beverage containers.

Maples Collegiate: Recycling and environmental education.

St. Boniface Diocesan High School: Participation in 'Caught in the Act' contest.

Fort Richmond Collegiate: Promotion of the event, environmental education and participation in 'Caught in the Act' contest.

Springfield Collegiate: Participation in 'Caught in the Act' contest.

Daniel McIntyre Collegiate: We are presently recycling materials such as paper, cardboard, aluminum, plastic and glass. We have students collect the recyclables from the building once a cycle and sort them before they are picked up by a recycling company.

Arthur Day Middle School - Litterless lunches and environmental displays.

Waskada Elementary School

Sansome Elementary School
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Businesses/Workplaces

Manitoba Transportation & Government Services: Distribution of Waste Reduction Week posters and information to all departmental buildings.

Salvage Kraft Recycling: We will be accepting a wide range of materials free of charge from the general public & business. Materials accepted include: use household goods, still usable partial cans of paint, clothing articles, and much more. Our acceptance of these material is not only limited only to WRW!

Brandon Photographics, Brandon: Recycling metal and plastic film cannisters, chemistry cartridges, cardboard photo paper tubes and plastic end caps.

Wriggler Wranch, Winnipeg: Free Workshops at the Brady Landfill Oct 22nd and 23rd. Wriggler Wranch is set up at the Brady Landfill where we plan to compost 1,000 tonnes in the next year.

Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation,Winnipeg: We recycle all cardboard not used in packaging product directly back to the supplier. We recycle all packaging material from supplies shipped to use in boxes (foam, popcorn, bubblepack, paper) we re-use all wooden pallets, over and over again. We re-use plastic tubs and large tote bins to ship our product to main plant from four provinces. Re-use paper for scratch pads (notes).

Kustom Kulture, Winnipeg: We always reuse packing foamies, boxes, and bubble wrap from orders we get in for the packages we send out. Whatever materials we don't use that are recyclable are stored in a room and picked up later by a recycling company. Every six months, thousands of pounds of material is recycled that would otherwise go in the garbage. Without a waste bin anywhere near our business, recycling is not an option; it's what we have to do.
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Waste Reduction Week in Manitoba
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