Ewaste Developments in Canada By Gordon Day, CSR Session S2 North American Regulatory Initiatives Up

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E-waste Developments in CanadaByGordon Day,
CSR Session S2 North American Regulatory
Initiatives Update2005 IEEE International
Symposium

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Overview

• Extended Producer Responsibility in Canada
• Harmonization in a federal context
• Provincial implementation 3 approaches
• Whats next

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EPR in Canada
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CCME Guiding Principle

• Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment
  developed 12 guiding principles for electronics
  product stewardship
• Producers responsible brand owner,
  manufacturer, first importer
• Consumer have access without charge
• Costs not borne by general taxpayers
• Strive for equity and consistency between
  provinces
• Address residential, commercial, historic and
  orphan products
• Managed in most economical and logistically
  feasible manner
• Exports on to facilities with sound management
  and fair labour
• Also has recommended list of products which
  include common and consideration
• Objectives are to promote harmonization between
  provincial programs
• Are they being followed?

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How Industry Has Responded

• Electronic Product Stewardship Canada (EPSC)
  www.epsc.ca
• Mandate to create a national electronics EOL
  program
• They have been active in initial consultation and
  working groups in most provinces
• However, no operational success in Alberta and
  Ontario
• May have role in SK and BC jury still out
• Key success is Recycling Vendor Qualification
  Program developed by industry to ensure recyclers
  meet a common standard of acceptable performance

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Albertas Approach

• Started Oct/04 fees Feb/05
• Targets TV, monitors, printers
  and computers
• TV 15-45 Monitors 12 CPU 10, Printers 8,
  Laptops 5
• Fees pay for collection at 75 municipal sites,
  recycling through approved recyclers and
  administration
• Designed to have fee paid by first supplier into
  province
• Suppliers now allowed to make arrangements with
  retailers to collect and remit fees
• Fee to consumer can be visible or not

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Alberta

• Retailer has option to show fee to consumer or
  not majority show it
• ARMA is government appointed, multi-stakeholder
  Board (previously managed tires)
• Industry council has no involvement
• Recyclers are approved by ARMA but limited to
  recyclers in Alberta

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Nova Scotias Approach

• Comment of draft regulation
• Similar list of products as Alberta
• Required to join government Board that operates
  beverage deposit, paint, oil depots
• Very prescriptive regulation
• Mandatory cost internalization
• Product and component reuse
• Product design that goes beyond RoHS provisions
• Focus is job creation
• Likely to be redrafted minority government

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Ontarios Approach

• Minister has designated 4 categories
• Appliances
• Audio visual equipment
• Telecom equipment
• Information technology
• Industry Funding Organization (IFO) to be develop
  program under existing legislation
• Must lead to internalized costs not
  prescriptive on how or when
• Study underway to provide data and comment to
  inform decisions on financing options targets
• Implementation timing anticipated as early-mid
  2006

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Other Provinces

• Saskatchewan has announced intention for industry
  run WEEE program through existing depot system
• B.C. passed new regulation and WEEE program
  expected following May election
• Quebec Manitoba focus on packaging in 2006
  anticipate 2007 for e-waste

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Looking ahead

• Country-wide by 2007/2008
• Provinces are rapidly implementing unique
  approaches despite CCME agreement on principles
• Three management models evolving
• Government designed and operated
• Industry represented on multi-stakeholder board
• Industry designed and self-managed
• Mix of funding visible fees at POS internalized
  costs
• Industry likely to promote at least harmonized
  reporting mechanisms as interim step
• Not whether there will be WEEE programs but how
  to get them harmonized