WHEREAS local governments provide public information regarding the location of recycling facilities; AND WHEREAS current industry stewardship programs do not communicate the location of industry collection facilities at local government waste disposal facilities: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the UBCM lobby the Province to ensure that industry stewards provide adequate funding for the advertisement of industry stewardship collection facilities.
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT The Recycling Regulation establishes stewardship responsibilities for producers of prescribed products. This stewardship role for producers shifts responsibility for managing end-of-life products and waste from local governments and taxpayers to industry, including the responsibility for making consumers aware of the producers product stewardship program, the location of collection facilities, and safe management of product residuals. The results based model under the Regulation sets clear requirements for regulated product categories without prescribing how various outcomes and targets contained within a stewardship plan are met, including advertising how stewardship agencies advertise services.