UNWAVERING COMMITMENT

Beverage producers that distribute into Manitoba; retailers that sell beverage containers; and places where beverages are consumed all play an important role in empty beverage container recovery. Supported by its partners, CBCRA is unwavering in its commitment, marshaling resources and leveraging opportunities to increase beverage container recycling across the province.

What does the program accept?

Non-alcoholic, non-dairy sealed beverage containers including:

  • Aluminum cans and steel beverage containers
  • Plastic bottles
  • Glass bottles
  • Cartons (gable top containers)
  • Drink boxes (aseptic containers)
  • Drink pouches

Where are containers collected?

Public Spaces

Municipal and provincial buildings, city parks, streetscapes and more

Private Establishments

Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (IC&I) locations, including office buildings

Public Facilities

Arenas, pools and recreation facilities, schools, colleges and universities

At Home

Single family and multi-family dwellings throughout Manitoba

Progress through partnership

In 2010, beverage producers and distributors supplying into the province formed a not-for-profit organization set on meeting the Manitoba government’s mandate of reaching a 75% recovery rate of all beverage containers supplied into the province. This organization is the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA).

The Manitoba Government Regulation requires that all beverage producers supplying beverages into the province either subscribe to an established program, or implement their own province-wide recycling system that can achieve the mandated recovery rate target. We’ve worked closely with all stakeholders, ensuring that the provincial government, beverage producers, retailers, our community partners and consumers are all considered in the operation of our programs.

CBCRA operates under a program plan that was first approved by Manitoba’s Minister of Conservation on August 31, 2011. The current plan, valid until December 15, 2017, details the steps that we are undertaking to help achieve the 75% beverage container recovery target. A new Program Plan will be submitted to the Government of Manitoba in 2017.

The first program CBCRA created was Recycle Everywhere. Recycle Everywhere strives to educate Manitobans on beverage container recycling, and ensure that it is convenient to recycle empty beverage containers no matter where you live, work or play.

Recycle Everywhere promotes beverage container recycling wherever beverages are consumed, both at home and away from home. This includes Canada’s first province-wide away-from-home beverage container recycling program.

Recycle Everywhere has partnered with communities, municipalities, schools, businesses, institutions, parks, festivals and events throughout Manitoba to provide them with the best Recycle Everywhere bin for the space free of charge. Partners simply arrange for the collection of the recovered beverage containers with a recycler. Together with our partners, we are enabling new products to be made, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing litter in streets and parks.

An extensive province-wide promotion and education campaign informs consumers and raises the profile of recycling throughout the province.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Through the Container Recycling Fee (CRF), beverage producers fund CBCRA to recover their materials in all channels, including both the residential and away-from-home sectors. The fee ensures that each beverage container sold supports the recycling process.

 

WHO PAYS FOR IT?

All beverage producers supplying into Manitoba are charged a

for every non-alcoholic, non-dairy beverage container they supply into the province.

 
 

2016 Beverage Container Sales

  • Material Categories

    Number of Units Reported
    Sold in Manitoba 2016

  • Aluminum

    175,887,554

  • PET

    206,054,022

  • HDPE

    2,655,502

  • Other Plastics

    780,290

  • Poly Cup

     2,278,464

  • Glass

    3,073,773

  • Bi-Metal

    630,711

  • Aseptic Containers

    38,748,066

  • Gable Top

    3,852,600

  • Drink pouches

    7,783,320

  • Bag in a box

    25,896

TOTAL 441,770,198

 

A producer and retailer powered program

Every single-use, sealed, ready-to-serve, non-alcoholic, non-dairy beverage container sold in Manitoba supports the recycling process.

Beverage producers and distributors supplying these products into the province are charged a Container Recycling Fee (CRF) that funds the entire program – from bin infrastructure to distribution of bins, promotion, education and technical support. The CRF also funds up to 80% of the cost to collect and process beverage containers through residential recycling programs.

These companies are our program stewards – committed to increasing beverage container recycling rates in the province.

Typically, beverage producers pass on the CRF to retailers, who pass it on to consumers. Beverage retailers throughout the province are key to educating customers about the link between the fee they see on their receipt and the cost of recycling each beverage container.

CBCRA continues to work with these partners and engage new companies as they emerge.

A singularly focused program with broad benefits

Though our program is singularly focused on increasing the number of beverage containers recycled in Manitoba, it provides many tiers of benefits.

Collecting and using recycled beverage containers to manufacture new containers and other products:

  • conserves resources
  • reduces greenhouse gas emissions
  • saves the energy required to process new raw materials
  • fuels a circular economy
  • reduces litter
  • keeps thousands of tonnes of beverage containers out of the landfill
  • extends the life of Manitoba’s landfills – further increasing sustainability

Recycle Everywhere generates local jobs, not just in recycling collection and processing, and bin manufacturing (with the majority of our bins made here in Manitoba) but also in program operation, communication and outreach.

2016 CBCRA PARTICIPANTS

  • A. Lassonde Inc.
  • Amway Canada Corporation
  • Arctic Beverages LP
  • Campbell Company Of Canada
  • Canada Dry Mott’s Inc.
  • Canadian Tire
  • CanAqua Inc.
  • Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada Company
  • Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd.
  • Cott Beverages
  • Dewpoint Bottling Company Ltd.
  • Distribution Missum Inc.
  • Dollarama LP
  • Edoko Food Importers Ltd.
  • Elco Fine Foods Inc.
  • Federated Co-Operatives Limited
  • Fresh Hemp Foods Ltd.
  • ID Foods Corporation
  • IKEA Canada Limited Partnership
  • Inform Brokerage Inc.
  • Kohl & Frisch Limited
  • Kraft Heinz Canada ULC
  • Labatt Brewing Company Ltd.
  • Leading Brands of Canada, Inc.
  • Loblaw Companies Ltd.
  • London Drugs Limited
  • Malinda Distributors Inc.
  • Maverick Brands, LLC
  • McKesson Canada
  • Nestle Canada Inc.
  • Nestle Waters Canada
  • No.22 Foods Inc.
  • Nothing But Nature Inc.
  • P.A. Fine Foods & Distributors
  • Pepsi Bottling Group Canada
  • Red Bull Canada Ltd.
  • RW Packaging Ltd.
  • Saputo Dairy Products Canada G.P.
  • Shoppers Drug Mart Inc.
  • Sky Blue Water Inc.
  • Sobeys West Inc.
  • Star Marketing Ltd.
  • Starbucks Coffee Canada
  • Sunrise Markets Inc. dba Sunrise Soya Foods
  • Sun-Rype Products Ltd.
  • TFI Foods
  • The Minute Maid Company of Canada Inc.
  • The North West Company LP
  • The TDL Group Corp
  • Tle’ Nax T’Awei Limited Partnership
  • Tree of Life Canada ULC
  • Unisource Canada Inc.
  • Wal-Mart Canada Corp.
  • Wm. Bolthouse Farms Inc.

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