For many cities, recycling costs have escalated sharply as large export markets turn back shipments of contaminated waste, sapping revenues from curbside programs and leading to pileups of unwanted plastic across the country.
"Some of Ontario’s plastic litter and waste is being shipped across the ocean to the Philippines and Malaysia. Meanwhile, plastic and other litter is increasingly plaguing our parks, highways, rivers and lakes,” he said.Ontario would join British Columbia as the only other province where large food retailers and consumer packaged-goods companies fully cover recycling costs, a system known as extended producer responsibility, or EPR.
Ontario’s plan would see Stewardship Ontario pay full freight, while municipalities would save up to $175-million annually, based on 2017 costs, according to the province. The province says every community with an existing blue-box program would be transitioned to the new system. But environmental groups say Canada also needs to emphasize policies that would reduce the amount of plastic generated in the first place. Canadians discarded some 3.3 million tonnes of plastic in 2016, far eclipsing the amount that was recycled, according to a report commissioned last year by the federal government.
This is great news! I will fix your headline though “Ford government moves to save municipalities recycling costs”
FINALLY!!
Let me guess no consulting done by Ford Govt ?
The consumer who recycles should pay the full cost of the recycling. Only then will we know what we would actually recycle, what we should incinerate, and what we should landfill.
As always the Devil will be in the details but I wish the Province good luck. Taxpayers will need it. DavidPiccini would appreciate discussing this further...