Did you know we RECYCLE in all our departments:

FOOD CENTRE:

• We have recyclable plastic bags at our checkouts and our Expressions location will soon have biodegradable shopping bags for product. Other plastic bags can be returned to our food store and we return them to Federated Co-op for recycle
• We provide cardboard boxed to customers for their personal use
• Any cans, bottles and tetra are kept and returned to Sarcan
• We re-use coin rollers to roll coin in the tills
• All pallets are returned to the suppliers
• Banana boxes - "what useful items" - are used:
     - to repack reclamation product that is returned
     - for storage of paper product that, due to government regulations, does need to be printed and retained
     - to ship back outdated magazines and paperbacks for reclamation
     - to ship back dented cans and salvageable damaged produce returned to the supplier
• Needles and expired medications are returned to Bio-Med for disposal from our Pharmacy

PETROLEUM:

• Propane bottles/tanks are recycled for customers
• Deposit refund provided on all oil drums
• Underground storage has been converted to fiber glass tanks instead of steel
• All underground piping is now double walled rubber instead of steel

HOME CENTRE:

• Scrap metal items are stockpiled and taken to Mryglod to recycle
• Wrecked paint cans in our hardware department are taken to Sarcan
• We accept vehicle batteries at our Agro Centre for recycle and smaller batteries can be recycled at our Hardware Store
• Three years ago we took part in a recycle program that any person that brought back batteries was given a reusable cloth Co-op bag

FASHIONS:

• Plastic jugs, utilized for steamers in Expressions, are recycled
• Biodegradable shopping bags for product will soon be available at Expressions

ADMINISTRATION:

• More and more records are maintained on computers in a pdf format and fewer records are printed - "what a paper savings"
• Computers, no longer in use, are taken to Sarcan for recycle.
• Weyburn Co-op and the Wor-Kin Shop have a shared program and all of our paper product is sent to the Wor-Kin Shop to be shredded in their secured environment. The paper products include inter-department memos, dated/old records, file folders, etc.