Marcia Stephenson

After viewing 2 video resources (produced by US TV stations during the Biden administration), and studying an interactive page about recycling labels in the UK, I began wondering about our situation here in BC. The 7 categories of plastic aren't clearly explained to people in public-service announcements or at drop-off centres such as the transfer station. We now operate under a system called Extended Producer Responsibility, "an environmental policy framework designed to ensure that manufacturers and businesses take responsibility for the entire lifecycle of their products, especially for end-of-life, recycling, and final disposal." (quote from a commercial website wastelogic.com.) Collection and disposal is no longer the responsibility of municipalities, but the manufacturers and businesses themselves. I wonder whether there's an economic advantage to providing consumers with more information--or less--about plastic packaging.