Today CM Consulting has released the Who Pays What report for 2020. This comprehensive overview of beverage container collection in Canada is an invaluable resource for understanding how the systems in Canada work, how policy drives them, and how their performance stacks up. Click here to view the full report
Beverage
Drink up! Beverage container recycling update
The ninth edition of CM Consulting’s Who Pays What report was released in October 2018. Produced since 2002, the report provides a comprehensive overview of container recovery programs in each province, including the latest data on performance and costs. The report also delves into the economic and environmental benefits of beverage container reuse and recycling, processes, end-markets, […]
Who Pays What 2018 Now Available
5 October 2018 – CM Consulting is pleased to announce the release of the 2018 Who Pays What report. Now in its 9th edition, this report has proven to be an invaluable tool for government officials and those in the beverage industry and recycling sectors seeking to understand how beverage container collection programs work, how their performance […]
Deposit Return: A Tried and Tested Solution for Scotland
As the momentum behind deposit return schemes in the UK grows, Clarissa Morawski, Managing Director at European circular economy platform Reloop, makes the case for their deployment in the fight against plastic waste and to increase recycled content in single-use beverage containers in the Scottish context. The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘tried and tested’ as: […]
In My Opinion: A Business Case for Deposit Return
In an effort to reduce litter and increase recycling, more and more jurisdictions are turning to deposit return systems for the recovery of beverage containers. These systems require consumers to pay a small deposit at the point of purchase, and they get the deposit back when they return the empty container for recycling. Despite the […]
Deposit Return: How it Works
If we look internationally—Europe, US, Canada, Middle East, China, and Australia—massive efforts are underway to introduce or expand existing programs, as governments recognize deposit-return as a modern solution to litter caused by single-use bottles and cans as well as far superior recycling rates. New laws have received much public support, and most respondents to public […]
CM Consulting Releases Global Overview of Deposit Return Systems
Press Release 31 May 2017 – As the problem of marine litter has steadily grown worse, there has been renewed interest in deposit return for the recovery of single-use beverage containers. Deposit return systems (DRS) are a proven tool to collect high quantities of empty beverage containers for reuse and high-quality recycling, and are vital to achieving […]
CM Consulting annonce son Qui Paie Quoi 2016
Peterborough, Canada, le 9 Décembre, 2016 – CM Consulting est heureuse d’annoncer la publication de l’édition 2016 du rapport Who Pays What (Qui paie quoi). Cette septième édition du rapport continue de présenter les données les plus récentes sur la récupération des contenants de boissons au Canada, y compris les mesures de performance et les […]
Dispatches from Europe: Why Deposit Return is EPR
6 December 2016 – More than two decades ago, Thomas Lindhqvist, a Swedish professor of Environmental Economics, coined the term extended producer responsibility, or EPR. At the time, Lindhqvist defined EPR as an environmental strategy that makes producers responsible for the entire life cycle of their products, especially takeback, recycling and final disposal. There are some […]
Watch the Video Presentation of Who Pays What 2016
English version Version Française
