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A Penny for Your Cotts — Beverage Container Management in Nova Scotia (1999)

January 14, 1999 By CMC

A Penny for Your Cotts

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 […]

Beverage Container Recovery in New Brunswick (1998)

March 30, 1998 By CMC

Beverage Container Recovery in New Brunswick

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)

March 30, 1998 By CMC

Beverage Container Recovery in Alberta

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 […]

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