Ten years ago, CM Consulting published the first version of Who Pays What, which documented the collective efforts in beverage container recycling and reuse in Canada for the first time. Since then, much has changed. Over the last decade,Canada has become a global leader in beverage container collection and recycling. Together, Canadian provinces collect […]
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Quebec announces deposit increase for beverage containers
Quebec’s Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand, announced on Sunday (June 10) his intention to “modernize” the current deposit return program which currently covers beer and soft drinks. By the end of 2012, the deposit will increase from 5 cents to 10 cents for cans of beer and soft drinks, including carbonated […]
Canadian Plastics Industry Association releases CM Consulting Access to Recycling report
NEW STUDY SHOWS MORE THAN 95 PERCENT OF CANADIANS CAN RECYCLE THEIR PLASTIC BOTTLES AND MOST OTHER RIGID PLASTICS Toronto, ON, April 2, 2012 – In the newly updated Residential Recycling Access for Consumer Plastic Packaging, February 2012, prepared for the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) by CM Consulting, findings show that an increasing number of […]
Evaluating End-of-Life Beverage Container Management Systems for California
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
Returning to Work: Container deposit legislation could ease Americas unemployment
Workers are needed in landfilling, curbside recycling and container deposit return, but which sector brings the most much-needed jobs to the struggling U.S. economy? Our authors provide a detailed analysis of the positive impact beverage container deposit programs can have on job creation. Returning to Work Click on the link below to see the full […]
New Study on Reuse and Recycling Systems for Selected Beverage Packaging from a Sustainability Perpsective
A study just released by PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG in Germany assesses the existing systems for collecting and recycling beverage containers in Germany from a social, economic, and ecological viewpoint. It shows that for beverage containers, deposit-return systems are preferable to green-dot systems (industry-financed curbside collection) in that deposit-return systems acheive higher collection rates, create more jobs, […]
An Overview of Plastic Bottle Recycling in Canada
Recovery and recycling of plastic bottles in Canada varies dramatically based on the province and the bottle type. In 2002, of the 235,086 tonnes generated, approximately 84,709 tonnes or 36% of plastic bottle material was recovered and recycled, based on available data. To date, deposit return systems for beverage containers are 2.3 times more effective […]
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 […]
