Thanks, Mr. Chair. I have one other question. For the Electronics Recycling Program, people pay a fee when they purchase an item, and the fee is basically used to try to pay for the recycling of that item when it's finished. With beverage container, there's a part of the deposit you pay that’s a fee to help cover the recycling cost, but there's also a deposit that you get back that’s sort of an incentive then for people that bring their beverage containers into a depot and get the refund for it. So a colleague asked me to ask about the potential of having a deposit on electronics, so that when people take a TV back or something then they would get a deposit back. Then there'd be an incentive for people to take computers, mice back to the depot to get the material recycling and get their deposit back. I understand that we want to have our fees comparable to what they are in Alberta, because we don’t want to create an incentive for people to go down south to shop, but has the department considered a refundable deposit for electronics as part of that recycling program? Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Kevin O'Reilly on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on June 9th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
June 8th, 2016
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