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Canadian Recycling Policy: Complete Guide for Product Makers PPV
Raymond Communications Inc, Nov 2004
As the dispute over where to put more than 1.3 million tons of Ontario’s Canadian trash heats up into a small cross-border war with Michigan, a new report sheds some light on how many major U.S.-based manufacturers and retailers have come to complain about having to pay for 50% of Ontario’s $118 million “Blue Box” recycling program.
This report provides a history and analysis of Ontario’s various political battles over who will pay for its curbside recycling program, and a full province-by-province summary of most of the nation’s 29 local “producer responsibility” programs that affect everything from packaging to used oil to paint.
Ontario’s “Waste Diversion Act” of 2002 allows the province to require “stewardship” on just about any product. As a result, companies selling more than about $1.6 million wholesale in the province are required to calculate weight-based packaging and printed paper fees, and report on 19 different kinds of packaging to Stewardship Ontario. Quebec is expected to follow suit soon with new regulations.
This is the first time product makers have had to calculate packaging fees in North America. In all, manufacturers will be paying close to $100 million in packaging fees alone to the two provinces to reimburse them for curbside programs by 2005.
Some major brandowners have balked at the new “black hole” of fees, which have doubled in just 12 months.
The report comes with a an audio CD of a workshop held at Take it Back WEST this year, where experts provide practical details on how companies can deal with the Ontario packaging fees.
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