As the debate around strategies to recover beverage containers heats up again, so too does the interest in quality information. For readers interested in said illumination, Who Pays What 2010 (the fourth edition) fills the bill, as it houses everything one needs to know about beverage container recovery in Canada. While some might choose to […]
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Beverage Container Recycling in Canada (2010)
Every two years, CM Consulting publishes Who Pays What — An Analysis of Beverage Container Recovery and Costs in Canada — a comprehensive report on the status of performance and costs of beverage container recycling programs in each Canadian province. Beverage containers are ubiquitous. In Canada, collectively, this worked out to about 1.5 million tonnes of […]
Packaging Stewardship — A Package of Responsibility (2010)
With Maine’s recent passing of the nation’s first stewardship framework legislation,all eyes may turn to Central Canada, specifically Ontario, to see how exactly such a lawcould play out, in terms of industry funding, costs and how it could improvethe recycling of packaging and printed paper for municipalities. At the close of this past March, Maine […]
RVM: Reverse Vending Machines — Beverage Container Recycling (2009)
Reverse vending machines arrive… at last! “The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself,” wrote Marshall McLuhan. Today we don’t think twice about using a bank machine, automated parking attendant, airport check-in, and self check-out at retail stores. So, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that machines designed for empty bottle […]
Rising Spirits — The Beer Store (2009)
The Beer Store container reuse and recycling climbs higher than ever This fall The Beer Store (TBS) released its annual Packaging Stewardship Report, Responsible Stewardship 2008-2009, with statistics on reuse and recycling of alcohol beverage packaging in Ontario. Since 1927 the privately operated retail and distribution company has been operating a deposit-refund-based packaging management system. […]
LES FAITS: Comprendre les enjeux associés à la récupération des contenants de boissons (2008)
Ce document est présenté à la Commission des transports et de l’environnement en réponse à son appel d’observations. Ce document a pour but de fournir des solutions fondées sur des renseignements réels en réponse à plusieurs des questions soulevées par la Commission concernant l’amélioration de la récupération des contenants de boissons. This paper has been […]
The Update: Beverage Container Collection in Canada (2008)
As the price of oil approaches $150 a barrel and energy is at a premium, high quality empty beverage containers made from aluminum, plastic, and glass are in great demand. Canadian provincial governments and beverage producers (on their own) have taken steps to increase collection for recycling. New programs Following years of pressure from municipalities, […]
A Case for Refillables: Learning from the German experience (2008)
I have a confession to make. I have always supported refillable bottles, but deep down, I never really thought the idea was economically viable in our global marketplace. However, after my trip to Germany — where refillables are available for nearly all beverages — (in all shapes, sizes, glass or PET), I believe the case […]
Who Pays What 2006-2007
An Analysis of Beverage Container Recovery and Costs in Canada
White Paper – Understanding the issues associated with beverage container recovery (2008)
Summary of findings While program funding options exist to pass the cost to consumers (CRF, Half-back), direct brandowner responsibility ensures cost scrutiny, and provides incentives for environmentally friendly packaging choices. Deposit return programs generate the bulk of program revenues from polluters and recovered material revenue Increasing the deposit level from 5-cents to 10-cents on existing […]
