Round-Up Your Used Plastic Twine for a Chance to Win
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
From November 01, 2024, to May 31, 2025, CleanFarms is hosting a contest to help recycle twine! Rocky View County Transfer Sites will be accepting these materials. Great Twine Round-up – Cleanfarms
Bring as much used plastic baler twine you can round-up, to a participating Alberta collection site for a chance to win a cash prize. The more twine you recycle, the better your chances of winning! Every year, Alberta farms play a huge role in feeding the world, but they also use thousands of rolls of plastic baler twine to make it happen. Recycling that twine keeps plastic out of landfills and stops it from being burned, which is better for our health and the environment.
Not to mention, recycling uses far less energy than making new plastic, so it’s a win for the planet too. When you recycle your used plastic, you’re protecting our soil, water, and air—and creating a cleaner future for everyone, especially Alberta farms!
That’s why Cleanfarms, through the ‘Alberta Ag- Plastic. Recycle It!’ program, is rewarding those who step up to make a difference. By getting your farming community to recycle plastic baler twine, you’re showing the world what awesome Albertan farmers do—and you could walk away with some cash prizes while doing your part!
Eligibility
• Open to all Alberta 4-H clubs, Ag Charities and all Alberta residents.
• Participants must be 18 years or older. Minors may participate with parental consent.
Non-Eligibility
• Employees, agents, and representatives of Cleanfarms, the Government of Alberta, the Alberta Plastics
Recycling Group, the Alberta Beef Producers, as well as their immediate family members and household members, are not eligible to participate in this contest.
How to Enter
1. Pick up free Cleanfarms twine collection bags from participating collection sites - County Transfer Sites will have bags.
2. Use the collection bags to collect clean, plastic baler twine.
Watch this video to see how it’s done.
• Shake – remove as much debris, snow, ice, hay, and mud as you can.
• Bag – place loose used, plastic baler twine* in a Cleanfarms twine collection bag and secure tightly closed with twine or a zip tie.
• Return – bring full bags of used, plastic baler twine to a participating collection site.
For your nearest collection site, visit csmap.cleanfarms.ca.
3. Identify your collection bags.
4. Take a photo at a a participating collection site with your bag(s) of used plastic baler twine.
5. Submit the photo with your contact information at GreatTwineRoundUp.ca.
*Used plastic baler twine only. Bags of twine mixed with netting, sisal twine, or other materials may be rejected, subject to a landfill tipping fee or additional charges at drop-off, and they WILL NOT be eligible for contest entry.
Photo Requirements
• The photo must clearly show the full bag(s) of used plastic baler twine and the participant at the collection site.
One photo may show multiple bags.
• The photo must be original for each entry; the same photo cannot be used for new submissions.
• Photos must not contain any inappropriate or offensive content.
• Photos where the twine bags cannot be counted will be rejected.
• Photos where the twine bags cannot be verified as free of other materials (such as netting or other plastics) will be rejected.
• Photos of twine bags that appear to contain more than 10% hay, straw, or other organic matter will be rejected.
Entry Limit
• Receive one entry per full bag of used plastic baler twine.
• Multiple entries are allowed, provided each entry corresponds to a different full bag of twine returned to a collection site, and your name or 4-H club name or 4-H district name and the date are identifiable on each bag, which the photo submission verifies.
More details can be found here. Great Twine Round-up – Cleanfarms
Media Contact
If you are looking for more information or would like to schedule an interview, please contact:
647-557-1801 | 705-796-8829
beverleym@cleanfarms.ca
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