Compostable Packaging Study

About Recycle BC
- - - Recycle BC is a not-for-profit organization responsible for residential packaging and paper recycling throughout British Columbia. Recycle BC ensures household materials are collected from households and depots, sorted and responsibly recycled. Our program is funded by over 1,200 businesses that include retailers, manufacturers and restaurants that supply packaging and paper to BC residents, shifting costs away from homeowners.
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Project overview

Recycle BC’s Program Plan outlines its commitment to better understand what and how much packaging and paper is being collected in municipal residential source-separated organics systems. Recycle BC worked to determine how much paper and packaging enters into the residential source-separated organics collection system.

How It Worked

Research began in 2018 by conducting audits from curbside and multi-family residential source-separated organics systems and continued in 2019 by investigating forms of compostable packaging that are present in organics recycling streams and their end-of-life management.

Results

2018 Municipal Organics Study Report ›

2019 Research Summary Report ›

We are grateful to live, work, and be in relation with First Nation and other Indigenous people from across many traditional and unceded territories, covering all regions of British Columbia. We value the opportunity to learn and share experiences on this traditional territory. The Indigenous communities were the original stewards of the environment, and they continue to fulfill that role today. We are proud to both collaborate with First Nations as well as commit to that work ourselves.