Written by Peter McIntyre 107.5 KISSFM Monday, 31 March 2014 06:02
Vernon's MLA says the Liberal government has no plans to revisit the new recycling program that starts May 19th. Eric Foster disagrees that opposition to Multi Materials BC is growing, but rather, the few groups against it, are just getting louder. Foster says very few businesses will be impacted. "Less than one percent of about 385,000 businesses in BC will be above the thresholds," Foster says. Foster says the BC Chamber of Commerce is backing the plan, a group he says represents most of the small and medium-sized businesses in BC. "There's a little turf war going on between a couple of agencies that represent businesses in the country, and that's part of this," says Foster. Foster say the idea of the new plan is not to get more money from people. "The idea of this is to get the packagers, or companies that make the products, to reduce the amount of packaging they use." The Canadian Federation of Independent Business and eight other groups want it stopped, saying it will lead to higher fees which will be passed onto consumers. "This is public policy run amok," says Mike Klassen from the CFIB. "We are asking British Columbians to talk to the BC government to push the pause button on its reckless and red tape laden program." Front end recycling fees will be added to businesses that produce packaging and printed paper, a move that will cost newspapers $6 million across the province, says the BC Yukon Community Newspaper Association.
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Will these charges end on May 19th as business will be providing the service at their cost??
Current fees for Program in Vernon
Recycling- Residential
$8.78 per quarter
Bi-weekly pickup, unlimited pickup
Recycling - Commercial
$67.35 per quarter
Monday, Wednesday and Friday Pick up, Unlimited Pick up
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