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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Experts say it could create a lucrative system that encourages companies to salvage waste plastic and reimburse Canadians and retailers for dropping off scraps.

One way of helping plastic producers keep track of the products at the end of their lives is to pay consumers and other users to return them — just like many do with alcoholic containers.

"We have an ability to actually incentivize consumers … to ensure that they're able to take plastics back so that it doesn't end up in the landfill and the environment through a return mechanism," Lakhan said.

"We see students on college and university campuses going around and actually collecting these containers off of abandoned tables or out of the garbage and scanning them to accumulate funds to put towards different initiatives," she said.

In a follow-up statement, Alberta's environment minister called the proposed plastics registry a "waste of time, tax dollars" which will increase the cost of goods.

In a news release, Environment and Climate Change Canada said the registry would "complement existing reporting requirements such as those under provincial and territorial" programs.


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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

What??? Alberta government was against something potentially environmentally beneficial? Colour me shocked