Deposit legislation introduced in Ontario. (Municipal Recycling).In June, Mike Colle, an Ontario legislator for the Greater Toronto Area The Greater Toronto Area (widely abbreviated as the GTA) is the most populous metropolitan area in Canada. The GTA is a provincial planning area with a population of 5,555,912 at the 2006 Canadian Census. , introduced Bill 125, which amends the Liquor Control Act and requires the Liquor Control Board of Ontario The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is a provincial Crown corporation established in 1927 by Lieutenant Governor William Donald Ross, on the advice of his Premier, Howard Ferguson, to sell liquor, wine, and beer in Ontario through a chain of retail stores. (LCBO LCBO Liquor Control Board of Ontario LCBO Logistics Career Broadening Officer (AFMC/USAF) ) to institute a deposit and return recycling program for the bottles and cans it sells. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the bill, the LCBO Deposit and Return Act will ensure that "all liquor sold to the public on or after July 1, 2003 by government stores and stores owned and operated by wineries or manufacturers of beer or spirits is in containers for which a deposit is charged at the time of sale and refunded on the return of the container." RE-News, an electronic news bulletin from the Recycling Council of Ontario quotes Colle as saying, "It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for the LCBO to take responsibility for the costs borne by municipalities to collect and recycle the massive amount of glass containers sold every year in Ontario. It's also time to correct the double standard that exists in Ontario today where beer retailers shoulder the cost of a deposit return system but Ontario's monopoly liquor retailer does not." As glass consuming markets have diminished, much of Ontario's glass has ended up in landfills, according to Re-News. |
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