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Building a strong recycling industry and contributing to the circular economy

• The case of EPR in

Québec

October 24, 2019

Mathieu Guillemette

Directeur principal / Senior Director Services to Municipalities Éco Entreprises Québec

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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

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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

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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)

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1980’s 1987 to 2001 2005 2011 Voluntary program Legal

• bligation

EQA and regulation amended Recycling begins

• Quebec’s Environment

Quality Act (2002)

• Regulation (2005)
• Introduced an increase in the

compensation to municipalities, from 50% in 2010 to 100% in 2013

Legal Context and Obligation

• Financed by the

industry

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Actual roles and responsibilities of all organizations in charge of the Compensation Plan

• Net costs reporting
• Contributions’ distribution

RECYC-QUÉBEC (state agency)

• Provide curbside

recycling services

1,100 municipalities

• Set fee schedule
• Collect Contributions

Éco Entreprises Québec Targeted companies Government of Quebec/Ministry of Environment Adopts laws and regulationso Adopts ÉEQ Schedule of Contributions

 Contribution Reporting 

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Collection Transportation Sorting

Costs to be offset

Municipal recycling programs, including multi-dwelling units and small businesses

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Designated Materials

Containers Packaging Printed Matter

ÉEQ’s Role

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Éco Entreprises Québec

Certified by the Québec government in June 2005 Represents 3,400 companies that market containers, packaging and printed matter in Québec Private, not-for-profit

• rganization based in

Montréal, Québec

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What really makes our mission?

Working both upstream and downstream of the curbside recycling value chain.

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Our two-fold mission 1- Finance

• ÉEQ is a private non-profit organization that

represents the companies that place containers, packaging and printed matter on the market in Québec in their responsibility to finance the costs of effective and efficient municipal curbside recycling services.

ÉEQ

$1.5B collected

to finance curbside recycling in the past 15 years

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ÉEQ

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 packaging, as well as with municipalities, sorting centres, processors and recyclers.

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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

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Material 2019 fee ($/t)

Newsprint inserts and circulars $205 Corrugated cardboard $184 PET bottles and containers $285 Expanded polystyrene for food products; protective polystyrene $793 Aluminium food and beverage containers $181

Companies’ contributions: a few examples

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ÉEQ as an optimizer

Improve citizens’ understanding Adapt and transform sorting centres Modernize municipal practices Further the evolution

• f material processing

techniques Develop eco-friendly materials and markets Rethink packaging, marketing and distribution

Actif dans son rôle d’optimisateur de la chaîne de valeur de la collecte sélective

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Objectives

• Secure the best-value-for-money
• Improve services to citizens
• Increase quantities recovered
• Improve the quality of recovered materials

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• 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

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Some benefits of EPR (actual)

Makes producers accountable for what they put on the market Offers stability for municipalities in times of crisis Provides municipalities with some information about others’ performance (emulation)

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Curbside recycling challenges

Helping consumers better understand what to place in recycling bins Increasing eco-design of materials marketed Helping consumers better understand what not to place in recycling bins (reducing contamination)

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What contamination?

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Curbside recycling challenges

Improving the capture rate

• f recyclable materials in

sorting centres and Improving the quality of

• utbound materials

Improving the traceability of materials and increasing transparency to maintain public confidence in recycling Feeding “local” markets with recovered materials and Developing new markets for hard-to-recycle materials

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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

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Thank you

eeq.ca

Mathieu Guillemette Directeur principal / Senior Director Services to Municipalities mguillemette@eeq.ca 514-987-1491; 232