CM Consulting and R3 Consulting published a study analyzing different beverage container management systems. Case studies of the beverage container deposit systems in California, Germany, British Columbia and Ontario, Canada, as well as packaging systems in Ontario and Germany. Read the report here http://www.container-recycling.org/assets/pdfs/reports/2009-BeverageSystemsCalifornia.pdf
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
Recovery Questions (2011)
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 […]
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 […]
Packaging: The Redesign Revolution (2001)
A look at the impacts of extended producer responsibility The past decade has experienced an explosion of environmental “extended producer responsibility” (EPR) policy initiatives around the globe. EPR policy extends a producer’s responsibility for a product or its packaging to the postconsumer stage. The two key features of environmental EPR are: the shifting of responsibility […]
Pied Piper: Where is Plastic Packaging Leading Us? (2000)
The Canadian plastics industry grew by 45 per cent between 1986 and 1997 — a growth rate three times that of other manufacturing industries and second only to electronics. With a total capacity of about 3.5-million tonnes of resin per annum, this economic behemoth accounted for $35.9-billion of economic activity last year. Plastic is truly […]
