This is the fourth article in a series on provincial beverage-container recovery programs in Canada. Of the programs reviewed to date, Nova Scotia’s operates at the lowest cost; it recovers 76 per cent of beverage containers sold annually at a net system cost of less than a penny per container. All beverage containers in Nova […]
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Beverage Container Recovery in New Brunswick (1998)
Low Cost for New Brunswick Beverage Container Management The August/September issue of Solid Waste & Recycling magazine explored the surprisingly low cost of beverage container recovery in Alberta’s deposit- refund system. Producer responsibility for beverage products is now practiced in Alberta, Newfoundland, British Columbia, and New Brunswick. In these provinces, manufacturers and/or distributors of beverages […]
Beverage Container Recovery in Alberta (1998)
Alberta’s Deposit-Refund System Eighty per cent container recovery at 0.8 cents per unit sold The net cost of deposit-refund systems for beverage containers is the subject of intense debate. Some suggest that deposit-refund systems operate at extremely high costs that are then passed on to the consumer. Others contend that if administered properly, deposit-refund systems […]
