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PPP Stewardship Plan Key Implementation Activities

Presentation to the Sunshine Coast Regional District

April 24th, 2014

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Overview

• Overview of MMBC

• MMBC’s Collection System

• MMBC’s Post-Collection System

• What Types of Packaging and Printed Paper are Covered by the Regulation?

• Impact on BC Business

• Communicating with Residents

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Overview of MMBC

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Who is MMBC?


• MMBC is a not-for profit agency formed under the BC

Society Act to develop a stewardship plan to satisfy the

requirements of the BC Recycling Regulation for Packaging

& Printed Paper (PPP) producers

• Businesses can appoint MMBC as their agent to discharge their obligations under the Recycling Regulation

• Participation in MMBC is not mandatory; businesses can file their own stewardship plan with the Ministry of Environment

• MMBC is the latest in over 20 stewardship agencies in BC that already manage materials such as paint, tires and electronics

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MMBC Governance and Accountability

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• MMBC is required to meet the performance requirements set out with the stewardship plan approved by the Ministry of Environment

• MMBC, like all other stewardship agencies, will publish an annual report with audited financial statements and an overview of the program’s performance for the year with respect to the commitments made in our stewardship plan

• MMBC is governed by a Board of Directors that includes representatives from Canada’s largest national companies, many of whom will be MMBC’s largest paying stewards

• MMBC is based on a collective model where every member signs the same membership agreement and pays fees based on the same schedule


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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



MMBC’s Collection System

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MMBC Collection System

• As of November 30th, MMBC had reached agreements with more 170 local governments, First Nations, private companies and not-for-profit organizations to provide packaging and printed paper recycling services for approximately 1.25 million households in 88 communities across BC starting in May: – 67 local governments

– 13 First Nations

– 90 private companies

• Breakdown of Collection Channels

– ~850,000 single-family households

– ~400,000 multi-family households


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MMBC Service to Sunshine Coast Residents

• District of Sechelt:

– Did not execute an agreement to accept financial incentives for existing curbside program by deadline

– Indicated interest in reconsidering after deadline

– Will be considered during 2015 budget planning process

– Existing program will continue to operate

• Sechelt Indian Government District:

– Declined financial incentive and opted out of MMBC program

– Existing program will continue to operate

• Town of Gibsons: – Declined financial incentive to introduce curbside program

– Indicated preference for depot service and for MMBC not to issue an RFP

for private curbside collection at MMBC’s cost

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MMBC Service to Sunshine Coast Residents

• MMBC Depot Service:

– Gibsons Bottle Depot

– Gibsons Recycling Depot – via SCRD agreement

– Pender Harbour Recycling Depot – via SCRD agreement

– Sechelt Recycling Depot – via SCRD agreeement

• Sunshine Coast Electoral Areas B and D:

– SCRD accepted financial incentives and executed an agreement with

MMBC to introduce a curbside program in electoral areas A and D

– Launch of curbside program has been delayed and timing currently

uncertain given April 10 SCRD Board decision to not implement a

curbside RFP to select a sub-contractor



MMBC’s Post-Collection System

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Post-Collection System

• On February 27th, MMBC announced the selection of Green by Nature EPR (GBN) - a new organization founded by three leaders in the recycling industry in BC - to manage the post-collection system for MMBC’s PPP recycling system

• GBN will be responsible for processing and marketing approximately 185,000 tonnes of PPP after it has been collected from curbside households, multi-family buildings and depots across the province

• The new system operated by GBN will

– Bring $32 million in new investment to BC, including a new

Container Recycling Facility in the Lower Mainland

– Employ 570 British Columbians in all corners of the province


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Post-Collection System

• GBN is a new organization founded by three industry leaders with an unmatched network of material recovery infrastructure in BC

– Cascades Recovery – one of Canada’s largest collectors, processors

and marketers of recyclable materials generated by businesses and

residents

– Emterra Environmental – one of Canada’s largest waste resource

management companies that provides recyclables collection,

processing and marketing services, as well as organics and solid waste

collection and disposal services to municipalities and businesses across

Canada and the US

– Merlin Plastics – a North American pioneer in plastics recycling and

marketing that holds several patents in plastics recycling technology as

a result of its innovative research and development team based in Delta,

BC


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Benefits of GBN Proposal

• In addition to the founding companies, GBN will engage more than 20 subcontractors across BC to be part of the integrated province-wide MMBC post-collection system

• This coordinated approach will ensure the MMBC program operates as efficiently as possible and is able to leverage existing recycling infrastructure

• GBN will provide timely and transparent data to ensure that collectors receive information on the quantity of packaging and printed paper they have collected and enable MMBC to demonstrate that it is meeting its end-of-life packaging and printed paper management obligations


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What types of packaging & printed paper are covered

by the Recycling Regulation?


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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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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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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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Expanding Types of PPP Collected Proposing to collect at depots

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Foam polystyrene

Polyethylene Film



Impact on BC Business

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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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Small Business – Proposed Regulation

• 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

• Proposed amendments supported by BC Chamber


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MMBC Small Business Policy - Low Volume Stewards

• MMBC has also created a category for low volume

stewards >1 tonne and <5 tonnes who will 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 will cover estimated costs of managing

the tonnage for low volume stewards


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MMBC Small Business Policy

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

• 67,000 postal mailings (envelopes plus two letter-size pages)


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Communicating with Residents


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Advertising Campaign

• Across BC

– TV

– Online and social media

• MMBC-served communities

– Print

– Radio

– Timed to appear four weeks before MMBC assumes

responsibility for curbside program


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Advertising Campaign


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Resident-Focused Website and Social Media

• Website includes

– Recycling services search function

– Information on what is and is not accepted for recycling

– Information about changes to glass collection

– Information on what happens to collected PPP

• Resident-focused Twitter account to push key

messages and encourage residents to visit

MMBC’s website


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Resident-Focused Website and Social Media


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Website Search and Mobile Application

• MMBC is also working with Recollect, a BC-based

technology company, to develop a mobile

application for residents to download to their

smartphones

• The application will feature weekly collection

calendars and reminders for residents with

curbside collections, as well as easy to use search

tools to learn how and where to recycle materials.


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Mobile Application



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