New Plan for Multi-Material Recycling Program (MMRP)

New Plan for Multi-Material Recycling Program (MMRP)

The stewardship group implementing the MMRP program, Multi-Material Stewardship Western (MMSW), has prepared a new program plan that takes into account the changes to the program imposed by the Minister of Environment in January. The new plan was released July 29 and is open for comments until August 28th. MMSW will revise the plan based on the comments and submit it to the government in late September. If the government can approve the plan by mid-October, MMSW will be able launch the program on January 1, 2016.

The new plan takes into account the loss of fees that would have been paid by the businesses that were exempted by the Minister. It also proposes a different system for providing funds to municipalities, switching from a per-tonne system that varied by community size to a per-household fixed fee for all communities. The new system will stay in place for at least the first two years of operation.

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