Celebrate World Water Day on Wednesday, March 22, with your family by joining us for a 30-minute experience in the City of Regina’s Waste Management Centre Education Room. The Education Room features play-based activities and innovative, interactive features that make it fun for families to discover where our water comes from and where it goes when it leaves our homes.
To participate, please pre-register for this free family activity. There are several sessions available to choose from.
Visit Regina.ca/openhouse to register.
Education Presentations & Workshops
If you are a classroom, workplace or community group interested in a presentation or workshop about waste reduction and diversion, recycling, composting or anything waste related, use our online request form.
Chose from presentations including Backyard Composting, Blue Cart Recycling Program or Regina Recycles! Roam & Explore Stations.
Backyard Composting
Learn how you can send your waste to a better place by composting! Get tips on reducing the amount of food waste your home produces, how to build an outdoor composter, and what material you can compost, along with a list of trouble-shooting tips.
Blue Cart Recycling Program
Why is it important to recycle the right stuff? Take our waste and recycling sorting challenge and see if you’re a super sorter. Learn what happens to your recyclables inside the Blue Cart.
Regina Recycles! Roam and Explore Stations
Attendees (children and families) will explore different recycling stations set up by the City of Regina staff. Games and activities can include:
- Find out what happens to your garbage, and where it goes after it leaves your home.
- How do you reduce, reuse and recycle? Participants will create a reminder bracelet to take home.
- Take our waste and recycling sorting challenge and see if you're a super sorter!
- See recyclable materials in their various stages. See and touch the products and learn what happens when they are recycled.
- Go on a scavenger hunt to solve waste and recycling trivia.
The City of Regina offers school age presentations based on the Saskatchewan Science Curriculum.
Think Outside the Trash!
Let’s explore the world of recycling! What goes inside your Blue Cart? Why is it important to put waste in its proper place? Through hands-on activities, participants will learn about the 3Rs and why it is important to recycle the right stuff to keep the environment clean and safe.
Age/Grade Group: Grade One/Two/Three
Life of a Recyclable
Follow your recycling! What happens in a Materials Recovery Facility? What do recycled items become?
Age/Grade Group: Grade Four/Five
Life of a Landfill
What is a landfill and why should we care about where our garbage goes? City staff will teach students about the different layers required to keep a landfill running efficiently! Your class will split into four teams and discuss the pros and cons of opening a new landfill, brainstorm ideas on what to do when a local landfill needs to be closed and come up with alternatives to building a landfill. All materials are supplied by City staff.
Age/Grade Group: Grade Six/Seven/Eight
The Boardroom
You’re hired! Students will be able to pitch an idea to offer a unique type of service or invention that gets Regina residents excited about waste! After a presentation on the City’s current waste and recycling programs, your class will be able to break into groups and discuss creative new ideas.
Age/Grade Group: Science 10/ Environment 20
Choose either a waste management course paired with a presentation or a water course information.
The Waste Management Centre Education Room is designed to provide a place to educate residents on Regina’s waste management and water system through play-based learning activities.
Learning about waste management and water conservation allows school aged youth to develop life-long habits about environmental responsibility. Information is provided in a fun, interactive way and presentations are also available upon request. Groups can book both courses.
Roam tour is approximately 30 minutes:
- 15 minutes Waste Management Tour
- 15 minutes Water Conservation and Sewer Protection
Guided room tour is approximately 60 minutes in length:
- 20 minutes for Waste Management
- 20 minutes for Water Conservation and Sewer Protection
- 20 minutes to Roam and Play Games
Composting & Grasscycling
Composting and grasscycling are easy ways to reduce your amount of household garbage and create nutrient-rich soil for your yard.
Composting is the natural breakdown of organic materials such as fruit and vegetable scraps, leaves and grass clippings by bacteria and fungi (micro-organisms). Composting can help reduce the amount of household garbage you set out and it also produces nutrient-rich soil that can be used for gardening and landscaping.
View our Guide to Backyard Composting to help get you started, tips on what material to compost and trouble shooting tips. Reduce your household waste and make great soil for your lawn or garden.
Learn how to use compost in your vegetable gardens, flower beds, lawn and more!
The Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council offers further information to help determine which household composting style works best for you as well as educational videos to get you started.
Want to learn a simple way to cut down on yard work and reduce your use of fertilizer and water? It’s called grasscycling and it’s as simple as letting the clippings from your mower stay on your lawn. There’s no need to rake after you mow.
Advantages
- Reduces need to fertilize – Nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, are returned to the soil. This reduces the cost and work of fertilizing. As well, it prevents fertilizer runoff from polluting lakes and streams.
- Returns organic matter to the soil – The organic matter increases the ability of the soil to hold water. As well, the organic matter feeds earthworms which aerate the soil.
- Reduces water consumption – The clippings act as mulch, protecting grass roots from the sun and reducing having to water your lawn as often. You save money and effort by not raking.
- Reduces work – You don’t have to rake. And you don’t have to water or fertilize as often. There’s more time to enjoy our beautiful Saskatchewan summers.
- Reduces pollution – Using a push mower reduces the amount of hydrocarbons produced by a gas-powered mower.
- Increase your fitness – Get some exercise by using a push mower, use muscles ordinarily not used and enjoy the sounds of nature.
How to Grasscycle
- Mow your lawn regularly
- Mow the lawn when it is dry
- Remove no more than 1/3 of the length of the blades of grass
- Keep the mower blade(s) sharp
- Just let the mower spread the clippings evenly on the lawn. They will settle in quickly and will disappear in a day or two.
Waste Plan Regina
Waste Plan Regina was created after years of engagement with industry experts and the public to develop a new waste management strategy. The plan provides the City with direction on how to manage waste, and to consider alternatives for meeting and managing long term waste management and diversion needs. This has resulted in the development of enhanced residential services, blue cart recycling, mandatory multi-family recycling and interim depot services for yard waste and household hazardous materials.
