North Central Saskatchewan Waste Management Corp.

Box 23045, South Hill PO
Prince Albert, SK S6V 8A7

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Report on operations to the end of 2025

The past three years have seen big changes intrduced for household recycling in Saskatchewan. 

First, the province has started the procedd to change the current shared responcibility recycling program to a full EPR (Extended Producer Respocibility) program.

​The program was intrduced with a three phase approach. Phase one was for the cities, except Prince Albert and Humboldt, who are members of regional waste authorities and two or three largest Towns. This phase was implemated in February of 2025. Phase 2, which will affect all regional waste authorities and all towns and villages with curbside recycling service. this phase will begin in February of 2026. Phase 3 will include all communities with depot type collection. Even if their curbside collection was included in the first two phases. Phase 3 will come into effect February of 2027.  Full integration of everyone into the new system must be completed by February of 2028.​

​There have been many questons as to how the new program will operate. The operation of the program keeps evolving as the discussion continue.

Under the new SK Recycles rules only Phase 1 communities and member municipalities of regional waste authorities may become collector agencies and retain control of their programs, all other municipalities in phase 2 of the program must allow SK Recycles to take over the operation of their recycling programs or opt out of the program entirely and loose all funding.

Inorder to help our nieboring communities we have invited them to join NCSWMC as recycling associate members. We have recieved may requests for this option.

We have also appied to SK Recycles for our material recycling facility in Prince Albert to become a collection center for SK Recycles material in north cenrtal Saskatchewan.​

Through 2026 and 2027 we will continue to negociate with SK Recycles for the best options for our member municipalities.​

The changes to the new recycling program ​have and will continue to change the way our regional waste authority operates. 

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Keith Matheson

Chairperson 

The volumes processed through our facilty since 2003 are listed.

2003    1542T        2013   3586T         2023    3578.5T

2004    2383T        2014   3764T         2024    3571.7T

2005    2203T        2015   3883T         2025     4156.6T

2006    2763T        2016   4424T

2007    3076T        2017   4033T

2008    3280T        2018   3805T

2009    3716T        2019   3309T

2010    4078T        2020   4060T

2011    3523T        2021   4658T

2012    3739T        2022   4404T

​When NCSWMC was formed and funding was received to build our MRF, our engineers designed the building to handle a max flow of 4,000 tons of material.  

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