SARCAN is a member of BCRNC – The Beverage Container Recycling Network of Canada – a membership of representatives from beverage container recycling agencies across Canada’s provinces and territories, including British Columbia, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, & Newfoundland and Labrador.

Together, we are responsible for the effective stewardship of more than 7 billion containers distributed in Canada each year. We strongly support and lead efforts to divert beverage containers from our natural environment. For over two decades, we have collaborated to optimize the recovery of these containers, raising the standard for beverage container recycling in Canada.

Nationwide, over 78% of beverage containers are recycled through these provincial beverage container management programs.

SARCAN does not collect waste – we collect resources!

Recycling your beverage containers, non-deposit glass bottles & jars, paint, electronics, batteries, flexible plastics, foam packaging keeps the valuable resources they are made up of out of our landfills and the environment

Recycling reduces landfills, conserves resources, preserves our environment, and allows these valuable resources to be remade into new products, and in some cases, remade right back into the product you recycled – helping to create a sustainable, circular economy.

Energy
Savings

Recycling plastic beverage containers uses 86% less Energy than making new plastic.

86%

CO2 Emissions Reduction

In our last year, recycling beverage containers contributed to a reduction of 47,872 mtCO2 in SK.

47,872

73 Collection Depots

When you bring your recycling to one of our depots, our expert team of Recycling Technicians will count, sort, flatten, package, & ship it out from your community.

2 Processing Plants

Your recyclables are received on trailers at our Saskatoon and Regina Processing Plants. They are weighed, crushed, baled, & shipped to our downstream recycling partners.

Glass

Glass is crushed, melted and transformed into fibreglass insulation and reflective beads for highway marking paint. Millions of pounds of recycled glass are used in Saskatchewan each year, helping to light up the lines on our roadways!

Aluminum

Aluminum cans are transformed…back into aluminum cans! It’s a circular economy that takes as little as 6 weeks to turn the can you bring us into a new beverage on a shelf!

Plastics

Plastic containers are shredded into flakes and melted down into pellets. Those pallets are transformed into a variety of new plastic products like plastic bottles, plastic packaging, polyester products (clothing, rugs), and plastic lumber.

Cartons & Juice Boxes

Cartons and juice boxes are transformed into new paper products like napkins, paper towels, and roof board.

Tin

Tin cans are melted down and transformed into new steel products such as piping and construction rebar.

Refillable Beer Bottles

Refillable beer bottles are reused! They are washed and sent back to breweries to be refilled with beer up to 12 times in their life cycle.

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Use the links below to learn more about the materials we collect on behalf of our partners!