Starting today, farmers will be able to take their empty pesticide and fertilizer containers for recycling.

Cleanfarms announced that more than 1,500 recycling collection sites across Canada would open their doors on May 2 to start accepting empty single-use pesticide and fertilizer containers.

Executive Director with Cleanfarms Barry Friesen said there are over 400 locations in Saskatchewan.

“In Saskatchewan, the beauty is that they can take them back to the same place they bought them from.”

The Cleanfarms’ recycling program keeps these plastic containers, which are a valuable resource material, out of landfill and the environment, and reinvested in the circular economy.

Since the ag plastic container recycling program began more than 30 years ago, Canadian farmers have brought back more than 143.6 million empty containers for recycling.

Recycled plastic from pesticide and fertilizer jugs are made into valuable agricultural products such as flexible drainage pipe and plastic bags.