Recycle Everywhere promotes beverage container recycling wherever beverages are consumed—at work, at school, at play or at home.
Founded in 2010, the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA) is a not-for-profit, industry-funded organization whose membership includes beverage brand owners and distributors. CBCRA is committed to reaching the government-mandated target of recovering 75% of beverage containers sold in Manitoba. CBCRA implemented and operates the Recycle Everywhere program. Recycle Everywhere strives to educate Manitobans on beverage container recycling, and ensure that it is convenient to recycle empty beverage containers no matter where you live, work or play.
Recycle Everywhere promotes beverage container recycling wherever beverages are consumed, both at home and away from home. This includes Canada’s first province-wide away from home beverage container recycling program. Recycle Everywhere has partnered with communities, municipalities, schools, businesses, institutions, parks, festivals and events throughout Manitoba to provide them with the best Recycle Everywhere bin for the space free of charge. Partners simply arrange for the collection of the recovered beverage containers with a recycler. Together with our partners, we are enabling new products to be made, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing litter in streets and parks.
Look for our blue bins in communities across Manitoba and recycle all your empty cans, cartons, juice boxes, glass and plastic bottles.
Through the Container Recycling Fee (CRF), industry producers fund the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA) to recover their materials in all channels, including both the residential and away-from-home sectors.
You can find out more about the process through this diagram on the right!
Recycle Everywhere receives funding from the Container Recycling Fee (CRF). The CRF is a low cost fee ranging from 1 to 3 cents charged on every sealed beverage container brought into Manitoba.
The CRF funds the Recycle Everywhere program – including infrastructure, signage, technical support and promotion and education. In addition, the funds pay for up to 80% of the cost to collect and process beverage containers in residential recycling programs.
Founded in 2010, the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA) is a not-for-profit, industry-funded organization whose membership includes beverage brand owners and distributors. CBCRA is committed to reaching the government-mandated target of recovering 75% of beverage containers sold in Manitoba.
CBCRA implemented and operates the Recycle Everywhere program. Recycle Everywhere strives to educate Manitobans on beverage container recycling, and ensure that it is convenient to recycle empty beverage containers no matter where you live, work or play.
Recycle Everywhere promotes beverage container recycling wherever beverages are consumed, both at home and away from home. This includes Canada’s first province-wide away from home beverage container recycling program. Recycle Everywhere has partnered with communities, municipalities, schools, businesses, institutions, parks, festivals and events throughout Manitoba to provide them with the best Recycle Everywhere bin for the space free of charge. Partners simply arrange for the collection of the recovered beverage containers with a recycler. Together with our partners, we are enabling new products to be made, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing litter in streets and parks.
Empty cans, cartons, juice boxes, glass and plastic bottles.
CBCRA and its program, Recycle Everywhere, is not a government program. When the Government of Manitoba enacted the Packaging and Printed Paper Regulation in December 2008, it also established a recovery target for beverage containers. This target requires obligated beverage producers to recover 75% of all beverage containers sold in Manitoba. Beverage companies embraced this target and formed CBCRA to achieve it in a timely way.
CBCRA implemented and operates the Recycle Everywhere program. Recycle Everywhere strives to educate Manitobans on beverage container recycling, and ensure that it is convenient to recycle empty beverage containers no matter where you live, work or play.
Recycle Everywhere promotes beverage container recycling wherever beverages are consumed, both at home and away from home. This includes Canada’s first province-wide away from home beverage container recycling program. Recycle Everywhere has partnered with communities, municipalities, schools, businesses, institutions, parks, festivals and events throughout Manitoba to provide them with the best Recycle Everywhere bin for the space free of charge. Partners simply arrange for the collection of the recovered beverage containers with a recycler. Together with our partners, we are enabling new products to be made, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing litter in streets and parks.
In 2008, the Manitoba Government recommitted its support for the concept of a comprehensive recycling system that includes a broad range of materials – and added a 75% recovery rate target for beverage containers. This ensured that the comprehensive recycling system would be convenient for everyone, as it includes both at-home and away-from-home recycling for beverage containers. As well, this model is efficient and cost-effective for municipalities, consumers and the operators of the Blue Box system.
The away-from-home beverage container recycling program, combined with the Blue Box, has created a recycling system that is a cost effective and convenient way for Manitobans to recycle all types of materials including beverage containers.
The CBCRA system combines the convenience of a multi-material system with the performance of a deposit system at a much lower overall cost to consumers.
This system is making Manitoba a leader in recycling across the country.
Visit our Recycling System For Beverage Container document to learn more.
The CRF is a Container Recycling Fee. Beverage producers are changed the CRF for every non-alcoholic, non-dairy beverage container they supply into Manitoba. This fee is used to pay for the cost of collecting and processing (sorting, baling and marketing) beverage containers wherever they are generated including all of the various away-from-home and at-home locations. The fee funds infrastructure, signage, technical support, Promotion and Education and program management. In addition, the funds pay for up to 80% of the cost to collect and manage empty beverage containers in residential recycling programs.
You can visit the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association’s website here to learn more about the CRF rates in Manitoba.
The away-from-home beverage container recycling program, combined with the Blue Box, has created a recycling system that is a cost effective and convenient way for Manitobans to recycle all types of materials including beverage containers.
The CBCRA system combines the convenience of a multi-material system with the performance of a deposit system at a much lower overall cost to consumers. This system is making Manitoba a leader in recycling across the country.
In 2020, on our 10 year anniversary, the overall recovery rate reached 71%, a very significant growth from 42% during CBCRA’s first year. Furthermore, the plastic PET beverage containers were recovered at a rate of 79%.
Beverage containers are the only product group in Manitoba that has a recovery rate target set by the provincial government. Consequently, the beverage industry established CBCRA to achieve this goal. Recycling other products and materials is important, but CBCRA is dedicated to the recovery and recycling of beverage containers. This singular focus is part of its strength. A side benefit of this singular focus is that the Promotion and Education efforts regarding beverage containers has a spill-over effect on other materials in the Blue Box, lifting their recycling rate.
Coffee cups aren’t accepted in our Recycle Everywhere bins. Coffee cups are considered contamination in many recycling programs because of the material composition of the cups, and the end-market for the materials they’re made of. Each brand of coffee cup can be made up of very different materials for the lining and outer casing. This makes it hard for processors to come up with a universal solution to separate these materials from each other. Lids are accepted in some communities but it’s always important to check with your local municipality first.
Each material type is used differently:
Recycling systems vary from community to community depending on how each has decided to operate or contract out its recycling program. Collection can occur either at the curbside in municipalities that support that type of service or at a local depot where residents can drop off their recyclables. Once they are collected, recyclables are sent to a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) where they are sorted and baled and sold to various companies for further processing into new products.
Recycle Everywhere bins are available free of charge for a wide range of partners to use in their public spaces. To find out how to request bins:
A number of factors determine whether a community will recycle certain materials. These include the distance material has to travel to a Material Recovery Facility (MRF), the amount and type of recyclable materials available for collection, local economic factors and the strength of the recycled material markets.
Multi Material Stewardship Manitoba (MMSM) is responsible for municipal printed paper and packaging recycling. To learn more, visit: http://www.stewardshipmanitoba.org/. CBCRA funds MMSM for up to 80% of the cost of collecting and processing empty beverage containers from the residential sector.
Make it easy for everyone in Manitoba to recycle their beverage containers. Sign up and order the bins you need for your workplace, campus, community or home.
