WHEREAS under the Ozone Depleting Substances ODS and Other Halocarbons Regulation, British Columbia Reg. 38799 within the Environmental Management Act local governments are required to remove all ODS from deposited refrigeration units; AND WHEREAS refrigeration appliance product life-cycle management is the responsibility of local government at their waste management facilities; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the UBCM lobby the provincial government to charge an upfront fee for the proper disposition of refrigeration appliances removal of ODS at the end of the appliances life-cycle on a province-wide basis.
Ministry of Environment Under the Recycling Regulation, Schedule 3 2.2, a stewardship plan for large appliances must be submitted to the Province by producers by January 1, 2012 and a program for the province-wide collection of the units will be implemented by July 2012. The results based model under the Recycling Regulation sets clear requirements for regulated product categories without prescribing the specific process or fee structure for the management of collected products.