Can Extended-Producer-Responsibility (EPR) be the response to circularity? Alberta, Canada, thinks so.

Alberta has started the regulatory process that will shift the cost of recycling away from municipalities and onto the companies that produce the items.

The new extended producer responsibility regulation, covers product packaging, single-use products, paper products, batteries, pesticides, most corrosive and flammable household products and their containers.

It sets out annual targets for what must be recycled. For example, 80 per cent of the paper products listed in the regulation that are used in Alberta homes must be recycled by 2027. The goal is 95 per cent by 2033.

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