OVERVIEW
VANCOUVER, FEBRUARY 2012
WHO AND WHAT IS EPR CANADA?
 EPR Canada has been formed by a group of like-minded individuals
with extensive EPR experience and connections across the country
- Geoff Love
- Duncan Bury
- Glenda Gies
- Georges Portelance
- Jo-Anne St. Godard
- Christina Seidel
- Don Jardine
 EPR Canada is dedicated to fostering informed debate and to being a
forum to advance EPR in Canada by focusing on and promoting:
 Leadership and innovation
 Best practices in policy development and program operations
 Defining and advancing efficient and effective program, implementation,
management and harmonization
WHO IS FUNDING THE INITIATIVE AND WHAT IS THE
BUDGET?
 Currently supported by the seven partners
 No government funding will be accepted
 Planned first year budget of approximately $20,000
 Hard costs – translation, website, printing, telephone
 Intention of creating a post-graduate student scholarship to support
questionnaire administration and evaluation
EPR QUESTIONNAIRE AND REPORT CARD
 EPR Canada is developing Canada’s first environmental report card of
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federal, provincial and territorial EPR policies and program
performance
Ministers will receive a questionnaire with a set of questions on EPR
policies and programs in their jurisdiction
Responses will be evaluated and scored by the seven EPR Canada
partners
Scores will indicate areas of strength and potential areas of policy and
program improvement
The report card is modeled on the successful report card developed
and published by the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance (CEEA)
CEEA QUESTIONNAIRE AND REPORT CARD MODEL
 Canadian Energy Efficiency
Alliance (CEEA) model
 Evaluation of government
energy efficiency policy and
programs
 High participation - successful
co-ordinated multi- stakeholder
promotion of energy efficiency
WHY IS EPR/REP CANADA SPONSORING A REPORT
CARD?
 There is no aggregated or comparative national reporting on EPR in
Canada
 Government legislation and actions play a key role in stimulating
private sector and consumer activity in EPR program development,
performance and monitoring
 The report card will assist in identifying best practices and enhancing
the standards, effectiveness and efficiency of EPR policies and
programs
 The report card will allow benchmarking and comparison of policies
and programs and support the further development and use of EPR
instruments
WHO IS THE AUDIENCE FOR THE REPORT CARD?
 Government officials and elected representatives
 Governments will be able to benchmark their performance against other
jurisdictions and
 Will be able to identify best practices which could assist in advancing EPR
in their own jurisdictions
 Producers, brand owners, producer responsibility organizations and
industry and business associations
 Will have a concise national overview of EPR implementation, practice and
plans
 Results will encourage further harmonization of programs across the
country in the interests of program effectiveness and efficiency.
THE QUESTIONNAIRE
 Uses the OECD/CCME definition of EPR
 Uses weighted criteria and will include a guide on how to respond
 Question categories:
 Producer responsibility policy and action
 Progress on commitments to the CCME Canada-wide Action Plan for EPR
 Progress on other waste reduction and waste diversion commitments
 Program transparency and accountability
 Program targets, performance measurement and reporting
 Decision-making and approvals process
 Harmonization
 Progress on design for the environment
 Leadership and innovation
 Awareness and public outreach
WHO WILL BE EVALUATING THE QUESTIONNAIRE
RESPONSES AND PREPARING THE REPORT CARD?
 The review panel will be made up of the initial seven members of EPR
Canada for this first year.
 Additional panelists may be added in future years.
 Panelists will not be paid for their time to review the governments’ EPR
submissions or to prepare the summary report/evaluations of the
information submitted through the completed questionnaires.
QUESTIONNAIRE AND REPORT CARD TIMETABLE
 The questionnaire and guide explaining the questions will be ready to
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distribute to federal, provincial and territorial government ministers in
February/March 2012
Six to eight weeks will be given to complete the questionnaire
Four to six weeks will be necessary to conduct the review and prepare a
summary report
The first report is to be made public by the end of June 2012.
EPR Canada plans over the next 5 years to prepare a regular report card
on each government’s EPR activities
WILL THE RESULTS BE PUBLIC AND PUBLISHED?
 The results will be made public during an environment week or at some
other related public event
 Individual, detailed government submissions will not be made public
by EPR Canada
 A summary report, with individual jurisdiction scores, will be
distributed to the media and other interested stakeholders
 The report will also be posted on the EPR Canada website which is
currently being developed
WHAT HAPPENS IF JURISDICTIONS CHOOSE NOT TO
PARTICIPATE?
 This is a voluntary initiative – no jurisdiction is required to participate
 Non-responses will however be noted in the report card
 In the case of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance, provincial
authorities have found it to be in their interest to respond to the
questionnaire and have used the report card to conduct an
independent “check–up” of their progress against their energy
efficiency goals and objectives and to measure progress relative to other
jurisdictions
 It is anticipated that the EPR Canada initiative will similarly support
best practices and can also contribute to the goal of helping to
harmonize EPR programs in different parts of Canada
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
 Duncan Bury
 duncan @ duncanburyconsulting.ca
 (613) 729-0499
 Geoff Love
 loveenvironment @ routcom.com
 (647) 248-2500