Extended Producer Responsibility for Waste
As Ontario works towards its promised new law on waste diversion and recycling, it’s helpful to look at European experience. The European Union has far more experience than Canada in a wide range of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems for waste such as paper, packaging, batteries,…
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Last week, Ontario Minister of the Environment, Jim Bradley, spoke to the Ontario Waste Management Association. He summarizes his Ministry’s considerable achievements of the last year on the waste file, and promises a new program for end of life vehicles, plus new framework legislation…
View the post titled Environment Minister Bradley: what he’s done and doing on wastePaper recycling in Ontario takes a hit
Atlantic Packaging Products is closing its recycled newsprint plant in Whitby, because of a “drastic” decline in North American newsprint demand, the high Canadian dollar, and high operating costs in Ontario. The plant was Canada’s first to produce 100 per cent recycled newsprint, and also p…
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