We're deeply concerned with Marketplace’s juxtaposition of three simple industrial transactions as a proxy for the sophisticated system of checks
and balances that exist inside BC’s residential recycling system.
The transactions that Marketplace executed as a part of its story were one-time, enterprise-to-business transactions exterior of
the Recycle BC program. These are the true facts of BC’s world-leading full producer accountability program
for residential recycling of packaging and paper.
They did not leverage or reflect the rigorous processes that underpin Recycle BC’s full producer
duty system, which Recycle BC shared with them but were not reflected in the report.
Our course of demands full traceability and auditability of all shipments to
end markets or disposal, utilizing documentation to confirm the place materials are shipped
from and the place they're sent. Our contracts stipulate that Recycle BC must approve the end
markets for all of our materials earlier than they are
transferred. We have also exercised our right to refuse to send supplies to finish markets that don't
meet our inflexible calls for.