“In other words, the taxpayers are not supposed to be carrying the financial burden.”

And that is where the fallacy lies is with MMBC. The taxpayer will be paying the financial costs incurred to the producer with higher prices of products passed on to consumer.

There is absolutely no way that you’ll convince me the taxpayer will not carry the burden of any potential program. MMBC is comparable to the New York City garbage extortion activities directed by the mafia in the 60’s and 70’s. But in this case, it’s the province that’s pushing the buttons. This entire concept MUST be re-considered and properly planned. What a mess!

From the article: “In other words, the taxpayers are not supposed to be carrying the financial burden.”

This is just a shell game. Taxpayers will always pay the financial burden. It’s just a matter of how much. With this new program from MMBC, nobody seems to know how much we’ll all have to end up paying.

Why are we even paying to recycle? If this made any business sense, we would be getting paid for supplying the materials.

Well, if we just called these price increases user fees, then you should be on board with it JB. Personally I recycle things that make sense, metals, cans, anything that has a deposit that you can get back, the rest is a waste of time and money and energy. There is a guy down in texas who makes railroad ties out of discarded plastics, now that makes sense, if they had something like that here, I may bring my plastic to it, but you would be getting paid for it since it is a business.

Huh: “Well, if we just called these price increases user fees, then you should be on board with it JB. “

So if I don’t use it, I don’t pay for it. Fair enough. But that’s not the proposal on the table.

Huh: “There is a guy down in texas who makes railroad ties out of discarded plastics, now that makes sense”

Does it? How much does it cost to produce a regular tie from scratch? If it costs less to produce a plastic tie and it works the same, I’ll agree with you.

If this recycling ‘plan’ goes as I think it’s going to, you’re going to see a large eco-fee line item on everything you buy (just under GST/PST). How large is anyone’s guess. And you won’t have a choice not to pay it.

We are already paying so called “eco fees” on many products that we purchase, whether for home or business use. These fees started showing up on till tapes or invoices more than ten years ago. I am not talking about tires and batteries, but products like spray paint, welding rods, engine oil, etc. We tried to find out what arm of government required the fees, and to whom they were paid, always reached a dead end. Concluded that some companies were keeping the proceeds, like a sneaky way of charging more for their product. Now of course
( I assume ) the gov’t actually is collecting the fees, then what? General Revenue? Not having a means in Prince George to recycle all (recyclable) products is wasteful to our society. Even the swap shed kept many re-usable products out of the waste stream but they had to do away with that. Have a look at what people throw into the bins at the landfill, furniture, appliances, clothing, books, its a crime really.
We should have a means to recycle more products, and more people should have the will to do it.
metalman.

Currently in PG you can recycle:

tires
batteries (automotive)
batteries (single use & rechargeable)
electronics
cell phones
paint
small appliances
fluorescent lights
used oil & antifreeze (along with filters & containers)
expired medication
smoke detectors & CO monitors
thermostats

For a comprehensive list of materials that can be recycled in PG & where to take them visit http://www.REAPS.org and download their Waste Reduction Directory

Metalman: “We are already paying so called “eco fees” on many products that we purchase, whether for home or business use.”

Agreed metalman. My thought is that these fees are going to increase substantially under the new program. Where the money goes is anyone’s guess. Time will tell.

Good list pggirl but perhaps saying “currently in PG you can drop off” would be better. As it stands we don’t really know what happens to the some of the stuff we drop off. Is it really “recycled” or is it just disposed of somewhere else?

India for plastic water bottles!
http://youtu.be/Se12y9hSOM0

I use the bins around town – 1st Ave, Save-on parking lot on Hart. Are these all going away? Lets not let recycling be easy for us.
What exactly can we put in the curbside recycling? I saw a lot of pop bottles in the picture, I will continue to take those to the bottle depot or donate them to kids, and won’t be putting those out on the curb.
What about plastics? Currently I drive to Vanderhoof or Quesnel with my plastics because we don’t have anywhere in PG to take them.