A new site for collecting recyclable beverage containers\u00a0could open in Gatineau’s Hull sector by the end of the year after the city approved zoning\u00a0for the project earlier this week, amid growing demand for deposit refunds in western Quebec.<\/p>\n
The approval comes after the province expanded\u00a0the types of containers subject to deposits. Previously, the measure applied\u00a0mostly to aluminum and plastic beverage containers\u00a0with a 10-cent deposit.<\/p>\n
But on March 1, the program was expanded to include an additional 1.2 billion ready-to-consume beverage containers between 100 millilitres and\u00a0two litres,\u00a0such as milk, juice and water bottles.<\/p>\n
The deposit is refundable if\u00a0the\u00a0bottle is returned to participating retailers such as grocery stores, or to a Consignaction centre\u00a0like the one in\u00a0Buckingham, Que. Consignation is the brand used by the\u00a0Quebec Beverage Container Recycling Association (QBCRA), which operates the depots.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s zoning approval allows the QBCRA to build a second centre for collecting containers in Gatineau’s core.<\/p>\n
According to the association’s vice-president Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lefort, Quebec’s\u00a077 existing sites have collected 290 million beverage containers since April 2024 \u2014 over 250 million of those after the March expansion.<\/p>\n
Pierre-Alexandre Blouin, president and CEO of food and beverage industry group l’Association des d\u00e9taillants en alimentation du Qu\u00e9bec,\u00a0said the volume of containers being returned to member businesses has been “way above our capacity” to receive them.<\/p>\n
“The system is pushed through to its limit and the retailers are doing the best they can, but their machines are broken, their warehouses are full,” Blouin said in French. “We really need …\u00a0more dedicated sites to be built.”<\/p>\n
The additional\u00a0centres in Quebec come as several Beer Store locations in Ontario are closing. They currently process\u00a0about 1.6 billion empty alcohol containers per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new site for collecting recyclable beverage containers\u00a0could open in Gatineau’s Hull sector by the end of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-108039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}