The City of Weyburn has some new hardware to show off after winning a national award.

Their video, entitled "Are you recycling right?" took home a top prize courtesy of Municipal World Magazine.

"Municipal World is a municipal magazine, so cities around the country subscribe to this magazine, and we got a phone call a couple of months ago saying that we had made the top five finalists of their 2020 Municipal Video of the Year Award and from that, we found out later that we were the winners!" said Paige Tenbult, Communication Coordinator for the City of Weyburn. "So a number of the municipalities that subscribe to this magazine voted and we ended up winning the 2020 Municipal Video of the Year Award."

Paige, along with form Communication Coordinator Adam Hoffart and BIG 106 Morning Host Dara Currie, came up with the idea for the recycling video following their August recycling campaign. 

She noted that, although the video may not have been the greatest, she also wasn't shocked to learn they had won.

"It's one of those videos that you just kind of giggle at when you watch it because, let’s be honest, the quality is not fantastic but the acting done by Dara and our Communications Coordinator Adam Hoffart and the editing that I did, it just kind of makes it one of those videos that it just, it resonates with people I think," she said. "When we found out that we were on this shortlist for this video of the year, it didn't surprise me that we were, what more surprised me was that they found the video. You know it was very popular I guess on and on Twitter especially and Facebook within the community, we got some good feedback on it but how a national magazine stumbled upon this and then also it resonated with them as well to give them the level of happiness that it gave us, overall, it was a surprise but it also does not surprise me."

She also noted that they will have more recycling campaigns in the future, starting as early as this week. 

"We really want to help our residents learn how to recycle better. The recycling program hasn't been around for that long and recycling isn't easy but, when you start to learn about it a little bit more, it really is easy. So that's the goal with kind of this campaign right now, the previous video that we did and anything that the city's going to do further with this is to just help you realize it's not that hard you just got to think about it."

The new recycling campaign kicked off this morning on the BIG 106 Breakfast show with Dara Currie and will continue on the City of Weyburn Facebook page throughout the rest of the week.