Recycling program to save New Brunswick taxpayers up to $18 million: official
Paul Young
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The provincial government is forcing more than 100 retailers and other businesses, such as Sobeys and PepsiCo, to pay for the cost of recycling their packaging to consumers, whether it comes in the form of paper, cardboard or plastic.
“This is great news,” said Gary Crossman , the environment minister, in a release last week. “As we have seen in other provinces across the country, extended producer responsibility will support consistency and more products being recycled in New Brunswick.”
Instead of local governments picking up those costs and managing the programs, responsibility will be shifted to the private firms producing the waste, encouraging them to clean up their act.
So, while municipalities won’t have to deal with piles of plastics and paper anymore, residential taxpayers should save cash.
Instead, the actual consumers of goods will likely pay more, as businesses recover costs.
Government of New Brunswick / Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick this ties nicely into my work on how the circular economy needs policies that are supported by viable technological solutions.
Blog - US recycling rates have stagnated. Can collaborative packaging solutions turn them around - https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/us-recycling-rates-have-stagnated-can-collaborative-packaging-young-yllnc/
I have written many blogs on the need for all levels of government along with the private sector need to work together on recycling programs.
Blog - WM’s chief sustainability officer on the future of recycling - https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/wms-chief-sustainability-officer-future-recycling-paul-young-ut9qc/
Paul Young CPA CGA
Senior Data and AI Thought Leader - ESG Policy Development and ESG Reporting
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