Nationwide Business Development Opportunity for Sorting and Recycling Services Under Canada’s EPR Programs
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Noon - 1:00 PM Eastern Time
Presented By: Usman Valiante
Supply-chain procurement strategist and advisor to Circular Materials
Supply-chain procurement strategist and advisor to Circular Materials
Canada's leading Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs)—Circular Materials, Éco Entreprises Québec, and Recycle BC—have launched a nationwide Request for Expressions of Interest (REOI) process to identify sortation and recycling service providers to meet requirements under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs that are being implemented for almost 40 million residents (equivalent to the size of California). Canada and the US are large trading partners of post-consumer plastics destined for recycling and under EPR quantities of plastic packaging requiring sorting and recycling are expected to grow significantly.
Sorting and recycling solutions must be found for all types of rigid and flexible plastic packages. In Canadian jurisdictions, all plastic packages are regulated without exception and must achieve increasingly stringent plastics recycling targets. The REOI process is the first step in the commercial procurement of plastic sorting and recycling services nationally. The result will be longer-term commercial arrangements between the PROs and their service providers that will provide economic stability to service providers as the basis for ongoing innovation.
About the Presenter
Usman Valiante is currently a technical advisor to the Canada Plastic Pact and a supply-chain procurement strategist and advisor to Circular Materials.
Usman has developed a number of Canadian Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulatory frameworks, programs, and circular economy systems including those for Waste Electronics and Electrical Equipment (WEEE), Municipal Household and Special Waste (MHSW), beverage containers, printed paper and packaging, pharmaceuticals and sharps, used tires, batteries, and end-of-life vehicles.
Usman has provided advice to all levels of Canadian government and to many of North America's leading manufacturing, consumer products, retail, and environmental services companies.
Usman has developed a number of Canadian Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulatory frameworks, programs, and circular economy systems including those for Waste Electronics and Electrical Equipment (WEEE), Municipal Household and Special Waste (MHSW), beverage containers, printed paper and packaging, pharmaceuticals and sharps, used tires, batteries, and end-of-life vehicles.
Usman has provided advice to all levels of Canadian government and to many of North America's leading manufacturing, consumer products, retail, and environmental services companies.
A senior policy analyst and commercial strategist with Cardwell Grove Inc, Usman has 29 years of experience in the fields of environmental science and economics, corporate and commercial strategy, public policy development, regulatory and institutional design, advocacy, negotiation, consultation, and communications.
