An Analysis of Beverage Container Recovery and Costs in Canada. Across Canada, beverage container recovery continues to emerge as a challenging and highly political issue for industry and governments. As the recycling sector has evolved so too has a range of recovery initiatives, each emphasizing their own strategic value. In assessing these initiatives it’s remarkable […]
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Recovering Canada’s Containers (2004)
Analyzing the performance and costs of Canada’s beverage container recovery programs reveals a stark disparity between deposit-return and curbside collection programs. Canadians are proud of their success when it comes to recovering beverage containers. Overall, Canada maintains a total recovery rate of 70 percent, representing just over 10 billion units collected per year. About 63 […]
Who Pays What 2001-2002
An Analysis of Beverage Container Recovery and Costs in Canada 2001-2002. Across Canada, beverage container recovery continues to emerge as a challenging and highly political issue for industry and governments. As the recycling sector has evolved, so too has a range of recovery initiatives, each emphasizing their own strategic value. In assessing these initiatives it’s remarkable […]
No Use Crying over Spilt Milk (2003)
Dairy industry product stewardship across Canada During the past decade there has been considerable development around beverage container stewardship. Milk packaging has traditionally been considered sacrosanct in part because it is a so-called “basis staple” and therefore should not carry any additional costs, including packaging stewardship costs. More recently, however, milk packaging has been pulled […]
Milkin’ the System (2002)
Canadian provinces today operate more than 45 different stewardship programs for products such as tires, oil, paint, pharmaceuticals, batteries, household hazardous waste and, of course, beverage containers. Milk packaging traditionally has been sacrosanct because it is a socalled “basis staple” and therefore should not carry any additional costs, including packaging stewardship costs. More recently, however, […]
Team Canada scores on beverage container recovery (2002)
A variety of provincial deposit programs receive good marks for high recovery, low costs and public support. The status of beverage container recovery in the U.S. gained significant attention with the multi-stakeholder report, A Value Chain Assessment prepared for the Multi-Stakeholder Recovery Project (MSRP), released in January 2002 (see “Understanding Beverage Container Recycling” in the […]
Last Place — Beverage Container Recovery in Ontario (2000)
This article on Ontario’s beverage container recovery program concludes the series on Canada’s provincial programs. Like Manitoba, Ontario municipalities rely solely on their curbside program to recover beverage containers. Though established in 1986 it was only in 1992 that the provincial government passed a regulation mandating the municipal provision of “Blue Box” collection. The 3Rs […]
Beverage Container Recovery in Newfoundland (2000)
Newfoundland’s Beverage Container Program In early 1997, the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Environment and Labour launched the “Beverage Recycling Program” under the Waste Management Control Act. The provincewide program covers all ready-to-drink beverage containers excluding milk, nutritional supplements, refillables and containers larger than 5 litres in size. The province set target recovery rates of […]
Beverage Container Recovery in Manitoba (1999)
Flat Tax Equals Flat Performance Like Ontario, Manitoba’s beverage container collection is consolidated with the collection of other recyclable materials and (with the exception of beer containers) doesn’t have a deposit-refund system. Of the 138 municipalities (of a total of 202) that provide collection services for recyclables, 58 per cent do so through depots and […]
Beverage Container Recovery in BC (1999)
Brand owner responsibility increases recovery rates, reduces taxpayer subsidies Last October, the Province of British Columbia implemented the largest expansion of a deposit-return program for beverage containers in North America. After only eight months, the program has been described as “a very successful operation” by Malcolm Harvey, communications manager of Encorp Pacific Canada, a not-for-profit […]
