Province will broaden EPR to include more product types

摘要

The British Columbia government released a five-year plan for adding a number of materials to the province’s extended producer responsibility (EPR) law. The West Coast province already employs EPR for household printed paper and packaging, paint, tires, automotive oil and antifreeze, electronics, light bulbs and consumer single-use and rechargeable batteries. It also has beverage container redemption programs. A 2021-26 action plan recently released by the British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy calls for expanding EPR to include hybrid and electric vehicle batteries and other battery types, mattresses and foundations, compressed canisters such as single-use camping fuel tanks and fire extinguishers, medical sharps used at home, emerging categories of consumer electronics and additional moderately hazardous products.