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 blue box waste). Now the people who helped to blow up the German monopoly on processing packaging waste are trying to do the same in Canada. Would this controversial proposal be a good idea? Read what they said about it at a Canadian conference – the Reclay Group’s presentation Packaging Waste Management in Europe in a state of flux – the transition into competition is available for download as a Powerpoint or Pdf.