Canadian provinces today operate more than 45 different stewardship programs for products such as tires, oil, paint, pharmaceuticals, batteries, household hazardous waste and, of course, beverage containers. Milk packaging traditionally has been sacrosanct because it is a socalled “basis staple” and therefore should not carry any additional costs, including packaging stewardship costs. More recently, however, […]
2002
Team Canada scores on beverage container recovery (2002)
A variety of provincial deposit programs receive good marks for high recovery, low costs and public support. The status of beverage container recovery in the U.S. gained significant attention with the multi-stakeholder report, A Value Chain Assessment prepared for the Multi-Stakeholder Recovery Project (MSRP), released in January 2002 (see “Understanding Beverage Container Recycling” in the […]
