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Packaging and Printed Paper Stewardship Program
Presentation to Burnaby Board of trade
February 5th, 2014
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Presentation Overview
• Overview of MMBC
• EPR: What Does it Mean?
• Highlights of Packaging and Printed Paper (PPP) Stewardship Plan
• What types of packaging & printed paper are covered by the Recycling Regulation?
• What Does it Mean for BC Businesses?
– Overview of Small Business Policy
• Next Steps
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Overview of MMBC
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Who is MMBC?
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• MMBC is a not-for profit agency under the BC Society Act formed to develop a stewardship plan to satisfy the requirements of the BC Recycling Regulation for Packaging & Printed Paper (PPP)
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Our value proposition to BC business
• We will fulfill your obligations under the Environmental Management Act
– Avoid the cost and administrative burden of
submitting and operating your own stewardship
plan
– Participate in our economies of scale
– Benefit from administrative harmonization with
other provinces
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EPR: What does it mean?
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E-X-T-E-N-D-E-D Producer Responsibility
• Extended to what? – End-of-life (EOL) management of packaging and printed
paper (PPP)
• Responsible for what? – Collecting, recycling and diverting PPP from landfill
– Paying the costs associated with activities set out in the PPP Stewardship Plan approved by the BC Ministry of Environment (MoE)
• Whose responsibility? – Producer—the business that provides the package or printed
paper to the BC residential consumer is responsible
– Producer also known as the “steward” in some other provinces
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EPR is the law in BC (1)
• BC recycling regulation amended in May 2011 to include PPP supplied to BC residential consumers
– Producers of PPP required to take responsibility for collection
and recycling of their PPP
– Transfer responsibility from local governments to businesses
that introduce PPP into the BC residential marketplace
– The regulation specified a November 19, 2012 deadline for
submitting a stewardship plan to the Ministry of Environment
• If a business has not submitted a plan or joined MMBC’s plan
you are now out of compliance with the regulation
• The MoE has issued a compliance notice advising that penalties
for non-compliance include fines of up to $200,000 and/or a
prohibition on selling your product in BC
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MMBC has fulfilled the regulatory obligations under the Recycling Regulation
• MMBC submitted a stewardship plan that meets the requirements for all businesses that provide PPP to residential consumers
– Food & Consumer Packaged Goods
– Personal care
– Grocery, drug and mass merchandise retailers
– Quick service restaurants
– Newspapers, magazines and directories
– Banks, financial institutions, insurance, utilities
– Nursery & floral
– Electronics
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Highlights of Packaging and Printed Paper (PPP)
Stewardship Plan
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Highlights of PPP Stewardship Plan
• Producers of PPP will be responsible for
– Reasonable access to PPP collection services
– Management of collected PPP
• Within the context of the pollution prevention hierarchy
• To achieve 75% recovery within a reasonable time
– Establishing relationships with
• Collectors - local governments, private sector
companies and not-for-profit organizations
• Post-collection service providers
– Financing implementation of PPP Stewardship Plan
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How will we meet our recycling target? (1)
• Build on existing residential collection infrastructure
– Curbside collection
– Multi-family building collection
– Depot collection
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How will we meet our recycling target? (2)
• Continuously improve service & accessibility for residents – Expand curbside service where
only garbage is currently collected
– Expand the types of PPP to be collected
– Experiment with streetscape programs to provide away-from-home service on municipal property such as sidewalks, plazas or parks
– Work with collection and processing partners to build an efficient and effective system for residential consumers
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What you need to know as a producer in BC
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How do you know if you are a “producer”?
Does your organization or
company have residency in BC? Yes
Does your organization or
company supply any packaging
and printed paper into the BC
residential market?
You are a
producer
Is your organization or company
a brand owner, first importer
or franchisor?
+
Yes +
Yes +
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Can you answer “yes” to all three (3) of the
following questions?
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Test #1: Do you have “residency” in BC?
“Residency” means: • an organization or its
parent has a permanent establishment in BC
Residency includes:
• Physical space (owned, rented or leased)? – Fixed place of business,
facility
– Office (including home office), workshop, factory, warehouse
• Employees or agents who can act on the company’s behalf? – Authority to sign, fill orders
from a stock of merchandise
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Test #2: Do you “supply” PPP in BC?
“Supplied” means: • Printed material or a
product contained within a package that is sold or distributed to a BC residential consumer
Supplied how? • Directly from a “producer” via
mail, courier delivery, factory premises, door-to-door; or
• Indirectly from a “producer” through a retailer, distributor or franchisee
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Test #3: Are you a brand owner, first importer or franchisor?
A producer is either:
– A brand owner
• manufacturer of the product who sells under the brand; or
• holds or licenses the brand trademark; or
• owns or licenses the IP.
– A franchisor
– A first importer
• first seller
• distributor
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What types of packaging & printed paper are covered
by the Recycling Regulation?
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“a material, substance or object that is used
to protect, contain or transport a commodity
or product, or attached to a commodity or
product or its container for the purpose of
marketing or communicating information
about the commodity or product"
Packaging
BC Environmental Management Act
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Packaging
• Five broad categories of packaging are included: – Paper
– Plastic
– Steel and other metal packaging
– Aluminum
– Glass
• Does not include various types of containers covered under other EPR regulations: – Beverage containers
– Paint cans
– Antifreeze containers
– Oil containers
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With the noted exceptions, these categories of packaging are
harmonized with other provinces
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“paper that is not packaging, but is printed
with text or graphics as a medium for
communicating information, and includes
telephone directories, but does not include
other types of bound reference books,
bound literary books, or bound text books”
Printed Paper
BC Environmental Management Act
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Expanding Types of PPP Collected Proposing to collect at curbside and multi-family buildings
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Gabletop containers
Polycoat packaging (e.g., frozen food)
Aseptic packaging (e.g., rice/soy milk & soup cartons)
Multi-laminated paper packaging (e.g., microwaveable
paper containers)
Hot & cold drink cups (paper & plastic)
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Expanding Types of PPP Collected Proposing to collect at curbside and multi-family buildings
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Empty aerosol containers
(steel & aluminum)
Aluminum foil containers
Clamshells (PET and rigid
polystyrene)
Plant pots Spiral wound cans
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Expanding Types of PPP Collected Proposing to collect at depots
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Foam polystyrene
Polyethylene Film
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Glass Packaging
• Clear/coloured glass containers can be collected
– At curbside if segregated from other PPP
– From multi-family buildings if segregated from other PPP
– At depots where it can be kept separate from other PPP
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What Does it Mean for BC Businesses?
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How will the program be funded?
• MMBC has developed an allocation methodology to apportion the costs of the BC stewardship program to the various materials
• Harmonization of this cost allocation methodology with other Canadian jurisdictions is a key objective
• Generally, fees are lower for PPP that is easy to recycle and for which end-markets (buyers) are readily available
• Some PPP currently has no end markets – MMBC will be conducting R&D for these materials (e.g., multi-
layer and composite packaging)
– Fees for unrecyclable PPP will be used for R&D until collection and processing systems are available
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What costs will be producers’ responsibility?
• The stewardship program includes:
– Collection costs
– Recycling/processing costs
– Consumer awareness and public education costs
– Program development and start up costs
– Ongoing operating and administrative costs
– Research and development costs to address
unrecyclable PPP
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MMBC Fee Schedule – Printed Paper
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• Newsprint – 20.00 ¢/kg
• Magazines and Catalogues – 24.00 ¢/kg
• Telephone Books – 24.00 ¢/kg
• Other Printed Paper – 24.00 ¢/kg
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MMBC Fee Schedule – Packaging
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• Paper Based Packaging (Corrugated Cardboard & Boxboard) – 29.00 ¢/kg
• Composite Paper Packaging (Gable Top, Paper Laminates, Aseptic Containers) – 52.00 ¢/kg
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• High Grade Plastics (PET, HDPE) – 31.00 ¢/kg
• Low Grade Plastics (Plastic Film, Polystyrene, Other Plastics) – 54.00 ¢/kg
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MMBC Fee Schedule – Packaging
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• Plastic Laminates – 70.00 ¢/kg
• Steel Packaging – 52.00 ¢/kg
• Aluminum Packaging (Aluminum Food and Milk Packaging, Other Aluminum Packaging) – 45.00 ¢/kg
• Glass (Clear and Coloured) – 25.00 ¢/kg
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Small Business Policy
• In the fall of 2013, MMBC committed to conduct a consultation with the small business community to arrive at a reasonable small business policy.
• The objective of the consultation and resulting policy was to develop a small business policy that is financially fair to all stewards while relieving low volume stewards of much of the associated administrative burden.
• MMBC has listened to the concerns expressed by small businesses in BC, and engaged with the provincial government and business associations to develop a small business policy announced jointly by MMBC and the Minister of Environment.
• This policy will provide increased certainty for small businesses and reduce the administrative burden for low-volume stewards of packaging and printed paper that wish to join the MMBC program.
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New Exemptions
• On Feb. 4th, the Ministry of Environment announced it would amend the Recycling Regulation to exempt businesses who meet one of the following criteria:
• <$1M in revenues; OR
• <1 tonne PPP; OR
• Business operating as a single point of retail sale that is not supplied by or operated as part of franchise, a chain or under a banner
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MMBC Policy- Low volume stewards
• MMBC has also created a category for low volume stewards >1 tonne and <5 tonnes, who would pay flat fees calculated by online assessment tool
• Two categories of flat fees for low volume stewards:
• ˃1 tonne and ≤2.5 tonne - $550
• >2.5 tonne and ≤5 tonne - $1200
• Flat fees would cover estimated costs of managing the tonnage for low volume stewards
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Examples of One Tonne of Packaging?
• 5,000 large format pizza boxes (corrugated cardboard box)
• 150,000 flyer pages
• 32,000 HDPE pill bottles
• 150,000 plastic bags
• 2,500 small household appliance boxes (e.g., toaster)
• 4,000 shoe boxes
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Number of Estimated MMBC Members
Regular Members – 2,000 to 3,000
Largest 150 Members will pay 80% of the program fees
Reporting Exemption Members – TBD
Other PPP Stewardship Programs:
• Stewardship Ontario – 3,000 members
• Eco Enterprise Quebec – 3,000 members
• Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba – 800 members
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Next Steps
• Companies that are obligated under the regulation but have not yet registered should contact MMBC Steward Services – [email protected]
• Two Step Process
– Sign Membership Agreement
http://multimaterialbc.ca/stewards/membership-
agreement
– Report packaging supplied to residents in 2012
http://multimaterialbc.ca/sites/default/files/documents/pdf
/info-session/MMBC-producer-guidebook.pdf
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Contact Us
Email: [email protected]
www.multimaterialbc.ca
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