What is wrong with recycling. I put my bottles and cans in the recycle container.

Grocery stores in NY have vending type machines that you put cans and bottles in and you get the deposit back.

Don't we just recycle cans? I have been putting them into the blue bins.

Again, industry is asking government to fund these schemes. They want to recycle the material, then pay for it yourself.

Deposit return is another money grab .

Can they just make a system like in Europe? Where the glass bottles are used several times and big shops has an automatic system (machines) with returns. So it is visible and everyone will do that?

My goodness! We've been doing this since at least the 70's in BC. It even provides some money for poor and homeless.

You can collect it in Ontario and return it in Quebec for profit

Our local gas station takes in a LOT of bottles and the business has been there for decades. I don't see the problem at all.

This is a troubling situation. Premier Doug Ford should implement a return-deposit system for non-alcoholic beverage containers and increase the deposit amount on alcoholic beverage containers. This would help reduce the litter Tim Hortons enthusiasts and perhaps drunk drivers left behind on our roadways. I think the police could also pay closer attention to what's being littered on the sides of the road and where to catch and remove both litterbugs and drunk drivers.

That's bull , Manitoba does not give a refund on pop cans , only alcoholic beverages

Here is Sask, we pay 10-25c on pop, juice and milk cartons at the store, rinse and save them after, bring em to a bottle depot (SARCAN) and get our depsits back. 10c for smaller 500ml-1L, 25c for 2L pop/milk and 4L milk jugs etc. Glass bottles like beer too, $ depends on size. Even juice tetra packs have a value. Doesn't take a long time and you have a couple garbage bags full of cans, bottles and tetra boxes, return it and get 20-50$ or more at once. Many folks donate them to charity like sports teams via bottle drives too, if they dont need the $. Seems wasteful not to have a system in place.

It's not cost-effective or environmentally friendly. I did the math.

all mycans go in recycling so i don't see how this would be an improvement, to be honest if added id stop buying pop

We need to get rid of it in Alberta I can just toss it in my blue bin. It is so annoying to take it to the bottle depot. We picked up a pop machine and just started making it at home. I went from buying pop every week to maybe new years and Christmas. In order to get my money back I need to drive 15 mins stand in line forever to get my 5-10 bucks back. Screw it I will just find better ways.

Typical Doug Ford. I wonder if he will be as hated as Mike Harris?

So people would need to DRIVE to the store to get back (pack of 12 cans) 12*0.10 = $1.20 and not all grocery store locations can collect your cans so you have to go out of your way. Plenty of people don't have cars, imagine the hassle needed to collect a bit over a dollar. FUCK THE LOBBISTS THAT THINK WE'RE ALL STUPID.

How much extra gas returning cans?

If we want to reduce trash and have people properly recycle then incentives need to be out in place. Add 10 cents to the beverage and then give it back on the return. Make it happen!

New Brunswick also has a deposit return policy!

"you get your money back" but how much do retailers and the government pay for the program and have to pass on those expenses to the citizens? Plus the time and effort it takes vs putting it in your blue recycling bin. Are people really putting them in the garbage instead of recycling?

this is so stupid. metal is one of the easiest parts to recycle and no one's going to change their behaviour. it's just more tax with extra steps, it's going to be like the paying 10 cents for plastic bags thing. no one used less plastic bags. even now people just buy those 33 cent 'reusable' bags and throw them out because they never remember to bring them to the store in the first place

Has worked perfectly here in BC. You'd be hard pressed to find any "empties" along the roads or anywhere in public.

Ontario used to have a deposit/return system, and it's a charge/credit on invoices between the bottler and the stores. What cost is there to the Ontario Government?

Does it actually make sense to separate glass beverage from any other glass? Isn’t it all melted? Does it make sense to separate plastic containers from other plastics? ….i doubt it is reused as the lady claims. If those 2 streams combined with other streams, than there are just cans left. Those could be recycled separately as well. Concept of deposit is an attempt to shift costs to consumer.

Yeah , you wouldn't want the poor to be picking those cans out of the recycling bins and making a few bucks !

$.10 cents Per container here in BC including now Milk. You will never ever hardly see a Beverage container on the Streets. What a Fking Great Program have

We do bottle drives for kids sports and funraising. Or I just put them in the blue bins. I'm in BC

Ask the real questions. What percentage of the containers are actually returned? Just another tax.

Quick challenge go spend any morning at the beer store in Hawkesbury Ontario and watch people from Quebec show up with drink containers to get money. They show up with trailers!

Paid recycling has less participation then volunteer recycling. It’s actually better not to have a deposit return

Just my experience and opinion , I do not value having to take time to sort, count, and store separately. They added deposit return to wine bottles for example, and now I burn gasoline and time to return the bottles.

NO MORE TAXES! ENOUGH! ... All this is, is a tax!

Prohibit of costs but doug ford has tax money to privatiza alcohol

Good we have enough burden on our backs with out more

Another sign the truth of climate scare is just that a scare tactic nothing more for ottawa

This is rich coming from the group that said to Ford that there's more important things to talk about like hiring more doctors and now they're talking about this? It's the same thing when they complained about Fords buck a beer and now they're doing it.

Unfortunately the deposit return system has hidden costs factors. Which means the cost of the product is higher . There's no free lunch.

I had no idea this wasn't a thing in Ontario, BC introduced a 30cent bottle return on 2 liter pop bottles when I was a kid in the 80's, it was a big deal then. The deposit is still 30 cents 40 years later, so people mostly ignore it now. EDIT: 5:34 for decades. All corner stores and grocery stores in BC have always taken returns, it was something we did as kids for extra money.

What a disgrace. There are such easy solutions that will motivate people to recycle and prevent the cross border issues. 1) Standardize the refund rate across Canada. 2) Make the deposit rate high enough that people are incentivized to return refundable containers. For example, .50 cent deposit on a non-alcohol beverage container with a .45 cent refund. If you have ever tried to return American beverage containers you will find out that they are stamped differently, often come in different sizes, and when you clink American beer bottles together they sound different. Also, reverse vending machines are great and I believe that they have been in Norway for many years. These should be available at every grocery store. Recycling centres also create job opportunities for people who have few marketable skills. There should be federal support for recycling facilities based on business success to offset labour costs of such staff. Once beverage containers are figured out, move on to Tim Horton cups/covers (10 cent deposit with full refund) (stackable = space saving).

Good

Ford nation!

Typical Ontario -it's all about greed....making the most money-screw the environment...2024 and Ontario doesn't recycle their drink containers??? Way to go Doug Ford, way to go Ontario.

Start paying for them like every other province, Was ridiculous to move away from glass to begin with, Glass is easily recycled plastic is not. You don't get any chemicals leaching into your drinks with glass either much safer to go back to glass there is way to much plastic.

Retailers = Loblaws

Boooooo

Bad decision: This creates jobs within the Ontario's economy - aluminum. Only applies to metals.

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Ugh...always such high drama about common sense things. My brain cells are dying listening to Canadian issues.🙄

This is shocking that Ontario doesn’t have a beverage container return system. I thought this was universal across Canada and common in much of the US. Like “red neck Alberta and Saskatchewan” have deposits on all beverage containers, surely the “more sophisticated” Ontarians would have a container deposit return system at least as stringent as those out west. In US states that don’t encourage people to sort out recyclables many municipalities do sorting of waste leading to higher percentage waste diversion through recycling than Canada as a whole.

Thank you.

I moved to Ontario a couple years ago, and brought my cans to a metro for deposit return, and they looked at me like I was crazy and told me to throw them in the garbage. Now I just follow your province’s customs and throw my recyclables into the garbage.

Doug Ford is always on the wrong side.

We are all broke right now. Why the hell would we want this? A deposit-return system would just make all our drinks cost more lol. We dont need to spend money on a deposit-return system right now either, our economy is horrible enough..

Great, what a waste of time

I dont return anything.... I dont drive and cant be bothered with the effort

It is much more environmentally responsible to not introduce a deposit and for us to use our recycle bins on garbage day. Imagine how much carbon will be emitted by all of us taking our pop cabs and plastic bottles in our SUVs to the recycle depot! Lol and don't we all have so much free time on our hands after a week of heavy commuting to and from work. Let's also just forget about having time for our kids and spouses while we do all this unnecessary recycling work instead of just putting the cans and bottles out for the garbage guy. Folks are we this stupid! Who are these people that want this??? Thank God that Premier Ford has a good head even if he sometimes makes a mistake (and he at least owes up to this and changes when he recognizes this).

Worry about Trudeau Who cares about bottles. You won’t have a home to drink in or any money to buy anything under Trudeau so don’t worry about Doug ford

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