{"id":621470,"date":"2026-04-22T17:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621470\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:14:15","slug":"waterloo-urges-province-to-implement-non-alcoholic-bottle-deposit-return-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621470\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo urges province to implement non-alcoholic bottle deposit-return program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Waterloo councillor is calling on the provincial government to incentivize people to recycle their bottles more often.<\/p>\n<p>A motion from Councillor Julie Wright at a <a href=\"https:\/\/events.waterloo.ca\/meetings\/Detail\/2026-04-20-1400-Council-Meeting\/290f9e97-d967-44ba-b486-b427013663dd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">council meeting on Monday<\/a> urged the province to implement a non-alcoholic bottle deposit-return program.<\/p>\n<p>Wright noted that Ontario is one of the few provinces that doesn\u2019t support a deposit-return for non-alcoholic bottles, and it has the lowest beverage container recovery rate in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadian provinces and territories that have a deposit-return program are able to recycle over three-quarters of their bottles, and even higher than that,\u201d said Wright.<\/p>\n<p>Wright hopes that such a program would encourage folks to recycle all bottles, as empty alcoholic beverage bottles are returned to Ontario Beer Stores about 80 per cent of the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecycling rates are in a weird, fluctuating position at the moment, and we really need leadership in this moment in order to get ahead of this issue,\u201d said Wright at Monday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Wright\u2019s motion alleged that the Ontario government proposed expanding the program to include non-alcoholic containers in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The motion was passed unanimously, and messages are set to be sent to Premier Ford\u2019s office, as well as the offices of local MPPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Waterloo councillor is calling on the provincial government to incentivize people to recycle their bottles more often.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-621470","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\/621470","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=621470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}