The Backhaul Project is a collaboration between remote, winter road First Nation communities, Producer Responsible Organizations (PROs) and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and the First Nations Waste Minimization Team from Green Action Centre.
It is aimed at removing stewardship and non-stewardship materials from participating First Nations Communities.
This year we partnered with 3 new trucking companies that transport goods and supplies to communities on the winter road. After dropping off their supplies, instead of back hauling empty, waste management crews fill the now empty trucks with the waste material that they have collected.
We partner with various receivers who process and recycle these different waste materials which ensures they are all managed properly and in accordance with the Federal Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act as well as the Province’s Dangerous Goods Handling and Transportation Act. This marks the 6th season of back hauling waste from remote winter road First Nation communities and has continued to grow with a total of 26 semi trailer loads of material removed from 7 participating communities (6 involving used oil products).
COLLABORATION PARTNERSHIPS
10 participating PROs included the Canadian Battery Association, Call2Recycle, Electronic Products Recycling
Association, Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada, Health Products Stewardship Association, Manitoba Association for Resource Recovery Corp., Multi- Material Stewardship Manitoba Inc., Product Care Association of Canada, Recycle My Cell & Tire Stewardship Manitoba. MARRC continues to be committed to the collection of materials in northern remote communities by participating financially with the other Manitoba Producer Responsible Organizations (PROs) to aid in the collection process for both stewardship as well as non-stewardship materials.
The 2025 Winter Road Backhaul was extremely successful in hauling our used oil materials out of northern communities namely:
- XFORD HOUSE: 1 pallet of 20L pails, 4 mega totes of 4L oil jugs
- LAC BROCHET: 1 drum of oil filters
- GOD’S LAKE: 3 drums of used oil
- WASAGAMACK: 4 drums of oil filters, 2 pallets of 20L oil pails, 1 mega tote of 4L oil jugs
- ST. THERESA POINT: 2 pallets of 20L oil pails
- GARDEN HILL: 5 – 1,000 litre totes of glycol
Supplies to enhance material packing and storage capabilities were delivered by MARRC via Perimeter Airlines as well as Northway Aviation to 4 communities including:
- WASAGAMACK: 4 Open top filter drums
- LAC BROCHET: 8 Open top filter drums
- OXFORD HOUSE: 4 Closed top oil drums
- MANTO SIPI (God’s River): 4 Closed top oil drums
MARRC also provided the following communities with their own brand new used oil storage tanks:
- ST. THERESA POINT: 4,600 Litre tank
- GARDEN HILL: 4,600 Litre tank
- GOD’S LAKE: 2,350 Litre tank
In total, 26 semi-trailer loads of material were removed from 7 communities representing 6 PROs comprised of stewardship and non-stewardship material.
Northern Remote & First Nations Communities Collections
VISIT TO PAUINGASSI October 23
Upon visiting Pauingassi on October 23 to view their used oil collection tank and sea container storage areas, productive discussions with the Public Works Supervisor as well as the Principal of Omiishosh Memorial School took place with the goal of having them join our network of northern used oil collection centres.