Written by 107.5 Kiss FM Tuesday, 04 February 2014 12:00
The province says less than one percent of BC businesses will be affected by the new recycling program which starts this spring. Environment Minister Mary Polak says they will be introducing a new regulation to exempt small businesses from any reporting or recycling costs if they meet any one of three criteria. Those include being under one million dollars in annual revenues, under one tonne of packaging and printed paper supplied to BC residents, or operated as a single point of retail sale and are not supplied by, or operated as part of franchise, a chain or under a banner. Multi-Material British Columbia, the industry-led stewardship organization responsible for the recycling program, will also be giving an option to businesses for an annual flat fee if they are considered a low volume producer of packaging and printed paper. Businesses producing between one and five tonnes can pay a pre-determined recycling fee and will not have to provide detailed reporting. Polak says it means less than 3,000 of BC's 385,000 businesses will be affected by the program which will shift recycling costs from taxpayers to industry, starting May 19th. "Our government listened to the concerns of small business, which is why we asked MMBC to work with the business community on a set of recycling rules that makes sense for small business while still achieving our shared environmental goals. I would like to thank the Chamber for working closely with us and supporting our solution to this
problem."
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