Recycling system changes made by Doug Ford government allow new “pop can tax.” The itemized fee will likely be passed down to consumers from organization backed by Canada’s largest food and beverage companies.
Under the old regime, municipalities were largely responsible for running their own recycling systems, with costs split 50/50 between municipalities and producers. Under, producers of packaged goods and other recyclable materials will be responsible for running and funding the whole show.
“The container recycling fee is charged to beverage producers by CBCRA. Producers have discretion over how or if it is passed along to retailers, and retailers have discretion on how or whether to pass on to consumers,” said CBCRA spokesperson Sheri Moerkerk. “If producers and retailers follow what has been done in other provinces, then the CRF will be reflected on checkout receipts beginning April 1, 2023.
What a pop-can tax is not, though, is what many environmentalists and industry experts believe is the gold standard for recycling: a deposit return system where consumers can get their deposit back when they recycle containers.
Technically, it won’t be the CBCRA charging the levy. The organization will be billing producers who will have the option of passing their costs onto retailers who can then charge consumers. But in practice,, the end result has almost always been the same: a point-of-sale levy. And industry experts, as well as the CBCRA itself, expect the same thing to happen here.
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