Recycling funding and reporting for your community

01 • Register your community

Get your program registered with Recycle Manitoba

Any municipality, First Nation, or parks authority operating or contracting a household packaging and paper recycling program (depot or curbside) can register to receive funding. The Registration Guide walks through the process step by step, and Field Services is available to answer questions before you submit.

• Registration Guide
  & Form
• Mandatory
  Materials List
• Shared Funding
  Model Overview

Contact Field Services

Each year, participating communities must report recycling costs and tonnes through the Cost Monitoring Survey (CMS). Recycle Manitoba conducts annual waste audits to understand the composition of the recycling stream, including the percentage of different material types such as cardboard, glass, plastic, aluminum, and other materials. This information helps Recycle Manitoba to determine the eligible tonnes used in funding calculations. Recycle Manitoba does not reimburse each community for its actual recycling costs each year. Instead, communities are paid a set rate per tonne of collected material. Recycle Manitoba calculates the funding rate for communities in different population groups based on their reported cost and tonnage information to determine the average cost per tonne for each population groups. Each community’s annual funding is then calculated by applying the funding rate for its population group to its eligible tonnes.