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Published on: 19 Feb 2014 By (Dianne Saxe)

Waste Diversion, monopolies and competition on packaging waste

The Recycling Council of Ontario’s annual meeting February 4 began with an electrifying presentation on the huge cost savings that resulted from the German anti-trust bureau breaking up its stewardship organization’s monopoly on processing packaging waste (the majority of our blu…

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Published on: 4 Feb 2014 By (Dianne Saxe)

Waste Diversion groups can sit uncomfortably with the Competition Act

The industry funding organizations used to provide, or to fund, waste diversion can have anti-competitive effects. There is a natural tendency for large companies with market power to use that power to design waste diversion programs and organizations in their own interest and to create obst…

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