Big beverage companies plan to charge recycling fees in Ontario. Will stores pass the cost on to you?
Companies are poised to start charging recycling fees for non-alcoholic beverages in Ontario following an earlier threat from the province’s environment minister to block the charges.
What’s not clear is whether consumers will see those fees tacked on at the checkout or buried within the price of the soft drinks, bottled water and juice boxes they buy.
Ontario is shifting toward making the companies that produce consumer goods responsible for the cost of recovering or recycling their waste materials.
The industry organization that represents the major beverage producers, the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA), is responding to the shift
