June 17th, 2025

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO THE RESIDENTS OF MOOSOMIN

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Re: Garbage collection

As per Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment regulations in regards to garbage dump facilities, and specifically through the Environmental Management and Protection Act, 2010, this includes regulating and enforcing compliance at landfills and transfer stations. The Town of Moosomin is nearing maximum capacity at our landfill and in order to comply with regulations effective June 30th, 2025 we will no longer be allowing Loraas Disposal to dispose of refuse at our landfill.

Impact to residents:

• Garbage pickup will remain through Loraas Disposal 

• Garbage collection schedule will be converted to a bi-weekly pickup, effective Monday, June 30th, 2025. (Please refer to the garbage & recycle collection schedule attached)

• Loraas Disposal will now transport to the Whitewood landfill at an additional cost to the municipality, however, changing to a bi-weekly pick up will at present, result in no additional charges to the residential billing

• Together with Clifton Engineering and Loraas Disposal Ltd., the Town is continuing to work on details of a transfer station, which is a facility used to temporarily store solid waste, before it is transported to the waste disposal facility at Whitewood

• At this point in time there will be no change to our recycling program.

• For a short period of time, our Moosomin Landfill will remain open and available for items to be disposed at.

• From July 1st-July 31st, 2025 we will be providing a reduced landfill fee of five dollars for household garbage that would normally fit in your curbside bin in order to help with adjustment to bi-weekly garbage collection.

• In an effort to become more environmentally sustainable and reduce consumer waste, we encourage residents and commercial business to divert waste by increased recycling through SARCAN and residential Loraas blue bins. This will help reduce the need for weekly garbage collection and actively pursue environmentally sustainable practices.

• To help minimize waste Saskatchewan waste reduction has formed a partnership with SARCAN that will allow residents to recycle more products to be turned into useful new products and help the environment. For example: glass jars, foam (e.g styrofoam) packaging and flexible plastics (plastic bags to stand-up pouches to chip bags) can now be recycled.

• You can visit www.sarcan.ca, Now Accepted at SARCAN!, What's Accepted - Recycle My Electronics Saskatchewan, Single-Stream-Curbside-Recycling-1.pdf, Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council, or  www.loraasdisposal.com to see a complete list of landfill items you can now recycle.