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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) December 3, 2006 -- Alberta, Canada
Model Beverage Container
Recycling System

By Jeff Linton
Executive Director, Alberta Bottle Deposit Association
Phone: 780-975-4736 Fax: 780-962-5227

Updated January 7, 2002

OVERVIEW

Alberta's Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act contains the Beverage Container Recycling Regulation. This regulation establishes and empowers a Delegated Administrative Organization, which is mandated to oversee the registration of all beverage containers (except milk) that contain a ready-to-serve drink and a deposit-refund program for the collection and recycling of all beverage containers sold in the province.

The Delegated Administrative Organization is called the Beverage Container Management Board (BCMB) and is comprised of 12 seats, 4 for each of three sectors: public, manufacturers, and depots. Through bylaws the Board is charged with a broad range of functions governing the system and its stakeholders relative to container recovery. The BCMB is funded through a levy on every container recovered, equally split between the manufacturer and the depot. The BCMB is required to submit a business plan annually to the Minister responsible and the regulation is reviewed once every 5 years.

The recovery of containers is effected through a province-wide network of 214 depots who reimburse the consumer the full deposit and prepare the containers for processing by material stream (there is at present no return to retail in this program). A common agent for all manufacturers facilitates the collection, processing and marketing of these used containers. All containers must be either refilled or recycle.

All the bottles, plastic and glass are being recycled. Even card board! What about the Metal beer caps and the plastic soda caps? These are being tossed away. Not only by the bottle depots. Some bars, restaurants, pubs, hotels, and trade shows & events toss away more than any bottle depots. Billions each years.

The Alberta government in the paste had deemed these bottle caps as a non recyclable product. it had no value. This is why the all end up in parks, lakes, rivers, steams and landfill sites all over the world. I have seen thousands tossed into campfires over the years. I have been only in one place at once. How many others were doing the same thing at the same time elsewhere while drinking beside a campfire. We have all seen this. Is this good for our environment?

The Original Bottle Cap Lure Company. A company that make fishing lures out of some of these recycled bottle caps. It has been trying to get funding for over 7 years hear in Alberta. The company creates funds for recycling the bottle caps from places mentioned above. This is been the only source of funding. The company had turned to Beer and soda industry for support. They only got rejection and threats of legal action for using their caps for making fishing lures. Huge companies claiming the bottle caps. Look at the news coverage http://www.bottlecaplure.com/news.php