Building a strong recycling industry and contributing to October 24, 2019 the circular economy Mathieu Guillemette Directeur principal / Senior Director Services to Municipalities - Éco Entreprises Québec The case of EPR in Québec
2 Mathieu Guillemette Senior Director Services to Municipalities ⁃ Various responsibilities over my 13 years at ÉEQ: - Negotiating curbside recycling net costs - Calculating contributions - Managing waste audits and activity-based costing studies - Managing the Away from home recovery program - Managing the municipal Best practices initiative for effective curbside recycling, etc...
Quebec Context
4 Curbside recycling in the province of Quebec ⁃ Population of 8.4 million ➖ More than 99% of the population has access to door-to-door recycling ➖ Quantity recovered per capita: 93 kg ⁃ 1,100 municipalities ➖ 557 municipalities and municipal bodies that manage curbside recycling contracts
5 Curbside recycling in the province of Quebec ⁃ 780,000 tons recovered yearly ➖ 63% recovery rate ⁃ 23 sorting centres ➖ Private, municipal, profit, non-profit ➖ Various sizes (3,000 tons to 100,000 tons)
6 Legal Context and Obligation EQA and Recycling Voluntary Legal regulation begins program obligation amended 1980’s 1987 to 2001 2005 2011 ⁃ Quebec’s Environment ⁃ Introduced an increase in the ⁃ Financed by the Quality Act (2002) compensation to industry municipalities, from 50% in ⁃ Regulation (2005) 2010 to 100% in 2013
7 Actual roles and responsibilities of all organizations in charge of the Compensation Plan Adopts laws and regulationso Government of Quebec/Ministry of Adopts ÉEQ Schedule of Environment Contributions Reporting Contribution 1,100 municipalities RECYC-QUÉBEC Éco Entreprises Québec (state agency) • • Provide curbside Set fee schedule • Net costs reporting • recycling services Collect Contributions • Contributions’ distribution Targeted companies
8 Costs to be offset Municipal recycling programs, including multi-dwelling units and small businesses Collection Transportation Sorting
9 Designated Materials Containers Packaging Printed Matter
ÉEQ’s Role
11 Éco Entreprises Québec Represents 3,400 Certified by the Private, not-for-profit companies that Québec government in organization based in market containers, June 2005 Montréal, Québec packaging and printed matter in Québec
12 Working both upstream and downstream of the curbside recycling value chain. What really makes our mission?
13 Our two-fold mission 1- Finance ⁃ ÉEQ is a private non-profit organization that $1.5B collected represents the companies that place to finance curbside recycling in containers, packaging and printed matter on the past 15 years the market in Québec in their responsibility to finance the costs of effective and efficient municipal curbside recycling services. ÉEQ
14 Our two-fold mission 2- Optimize ⁃ We contribute to the optimization of the curbside recycling value chain and implementation of innovative approaches with a view to sustainable development and circular economy . ⁃ We foster more efficient and effective recovery of recyclable materials by collaborating with companies to develop eco-responsible ÉEQ packaging , as well as with municipalities, sorting centres, processors and recyclers.
15 Companies’ contributions ⁃ Based on the Schedule of Contributions, which is adopted and published every year ⁃ Fee (in $/t) by type of material is established based on recycling performance, collection, transportation and treatment costs, as well as market value ⁃ The less recyclable the material, the more expensive it is ⁃ Each company’s individual contribution is based on the quantity of materials marketed, times the specific rate for each material ⁃ The more materials a company generates, the more it pays ⁃ Credit for recycled content since 2009 included in the Rules for printed paper, and since 2013 for PET and Kraft paper containers
16 Companies’ contributions: a few examples Material 2019 fee ($/t) Newsprint inserts and circulars $205 Corrugated cardboard $184 PET bottles and containers $285 Expanded polystyrene for food $793 products; protective polystyrene Aluminium food and beverage $181 containers
17 ÉEQ as an optimizer Actif dans son rôle d’optimisateur de la chaîne de valeur de la collecte sélective Rethink packaging, marketing and Improve citizens ’ distribution understanding Develop eco-friendly Modernize municipal materials and markets practices Further the evolution of material processing techniques Adapt and transform sorting centres
18 Objectives Secure the best-value-for-money Improve services to citizens Increase quantities recovered Improve the quality of recovered materials
19 Presentation of best practices in curbside recycling to elected officials and municipal general managers Publication of tools and case studies For municipalities seeking to adopt best practices, free direct support to prepare specifications for their calls for tenders
The need to do better
21 Some benefits of EPR (actual) Provides municipalities Makes producers Offers stability for with some information accountable for what they municipalities in times of about others’ performance put on the market crisis (emulation) 1 2 3
22 Curbside recycling challenges Increasing eco-design of Helping consumers better Helping consumers better materials marketed understand what to place in understand what not to place recycling bins in recycling bins (reducing contamination)
23 What contamination?
24 Curbside recycling challenges Improving the capture rate Improving the traceability of Feeding “local” markets with of recyclable materials in materials and increasing recovered materials sorting centres transparency to maintain and and public confidence in recycling Developing new markets for Improving the quality of hard-to-recycle materials outbound materials
25 Three keys to success: patience, collaboration, vision EPR implementation is a continuous, evolving process If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together Know why you are doing it
26 Thank you eeq.ca Mathieu Guillemette Directeur principal / Senior Director Services to Municipalities mguillemette@eeq.ca 514-987-1491; 232
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