‘Greens are writing to Doug Ford to call on his government to follow the rest of Canada and implement a deposit-return program for all beverages.’
A Message from the Green Party of Ontario
Posted September 23rd 2024 on Niagara At Large
Even children know how to recycle and why it benefits our environment. Why doesn’t Doug Ford?
We expect everyone in Ontario to recycle and yet Doug Ford refuses to hold our grocery giants to the same standards.
The Beer Store’s deposit-return program for alcoholic beverages has saved 203,914 tons of avoided greenhouse gas emissions. There were plans to expand the program to include non-alcoholic beverages which would have forced polluting companies to be accountable for the waste they were creating.
That is until the Ford government canceled the program.
Deposit-return programs are proven to successfully divert bottles and cans from our landfills, lakes and parks. That’s why almost every other province already has one in place.
Ontario’s existing recycling program has major shortcomings, diverting less than 50 percent of non-alcoholic beverages. Meanwhile, the alcoholic beverage deposit-return programs we already have in place have success rates of 70 to 80 percent.’
Help us teach Ford how to recycle](https://secure.gpo.ca/civicrm/mailing/url?u=201426&qid=104708735)
The Ford government’s decision to abandon its plans for such a program is a classic case of Conservatives putting corporate greed over public good.
This should be a no-brainer for the Ford government. But once again, the Premier has proven he is more concerned with keeping big corporations happy than helping out ordinary Ontarians.
Greens are writing to Doug Ford to call on his government to follow the rest of Canada and implement a deposit-return program for all beverages.
If five-year-olds can recycle, so can Ford.
Will you join us?](https://secure.gpo.ca/civicrm/mailing/url?u=201426&qid=104708735)
Sincerely, Darren Elias, Ontario Greens
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NEW POLL: Ontarians Want Deposit-Return System for Non-alcoholic Drink Containers, with Easy and Accessible Return-to-Retail
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Doug Ford does know how to recycle when it benefits him. Do you remember his license plate fiasco a few years back. That cost taxpayers big time and Mr. Ford had to rush to get tens of thousands of illegible plates off the shelves and into the crusher hiding the evidence so he wouldn’t look so bad. Just another one of his brilliant ideas that backfired.
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