Please visit the links below for more information on the collection and disposal of pharmaceutical products.

  • Government of British Columbia

    Pharmaceutical brand-owners requested that the province expand the scope of the Post-Consumer Residual Stewardship Program Regulation (BC Reg.111/97) to include pharmaceutical products in order to ensure a level playing field for all producers through universal participation in the program. The regulation, passed on March 27, 1997, required all brand-owners of pharmaceutical products sold in B.C. to take cradle-to-cradle responsibility for the safe management of their products.

  • Recycle Québec

    Establised in 1990, the Société québécoise de récupération et de recyclage (RECYC-QUÉBEC) is a government corporation established to promote, develop and support the reduction, the re-employment, recovery and recycling of containers, packing, matters or products, and protection of our resources.

    The corporation belongs to the Minister for the Environment; a board of directors composed of no more then eleven members manages its affairs.

  • Waste Diversion Ontario

    (WDO) is a permanent, non-share non-government corporation created under the Waste Diversion Act on June 27, 2002. WDO was established to develop, implement and operate waste diversion programs for a wide range of materials that include Blue Box Waste, Used Tires, Used Oil Material, Household Special Waste, Electronic Waste, Organic Materials, Pharmaceuticals and Fluorescent Tubes. Waste diversion programs will be developed after materials are designated by the Minister of the Environment.

    WDO has been authorized by the Act to work co-operatively with those industries that produce and distribute these products to establish programs to divert waste materials.

  • Proper Use and Disposal of Medication

  • Health Canada-Environmental Assessment Regulations (EAR)

    • The Environmental Impact Initiative's (EII) focus is to study the potential effect of personal care products and pharmaceuticals, regulated under the Food and Drug Act (F & DA), in the Canadian environment and on human health.

  • Doing our part for a drug-free environment

 

BC Stewards
British Columbia’s Recycling Handbook: A simple guide to what can be recycled under BC’s Stewardship Programs

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BC Used Oil Management Association

www.usedoilrecycling.com/en/bc

BCUOMA is a not-for-profit organization open to all brand-owners of lubricating oil, oil filters and oil containers in British Columbia.

Call2Recycle

www.call2recycle.ca

Call2Recycle is the only free battery and cell phone collection program in North America and is operated by the non-profit Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation of Canada (RBRCC).

ENCORP Pacific (Canada)

www.encorp.ca/

ENCORP Pacific (Canada) is the industry product stewardship corporation mandated to develop and manage a consumer and cost effective system to recover end-of-life consumer products and packaging for recycling.

Electronics Stewardship Association of British Columbia

www.esabc.ca

Industry through ESABC is committed to providing British Columbians with efficient, cost-effective, convenient, environmentally sound and socially responsible solutions for managing obligated end-of-life electronics.

Product Care

www.productcare.org/British-Columbia

Product Care is a not-for-profit industry sponsored association that manages environmental stewardship programs for paint, flammable liquids, domestic pesticide and gasoline.

Recycle My Cell

www.recyclemycell.ca

Canada’s wireless telecommunications industry operates Recycle My Cell, a Web-based initiative designed to make it even easier for Canadians to recycle their old cell phones. The national program lets users find out where and how to properly dispose of their cell phones and other wireless devices for free – regardless of carrier, brand or condition.

Tire Stewardship BC

www.tirestewardshipbc.ca

Tire Stewardship BC is a not-for-profit organization formed to manage the scrap tire recycling program on behalf of tire retailers in the province.

Unplugged

www.unpluggedrecycling.ca

Unplugged is a non-profit program funded by a recycling fee applied to new small appliances brought into B.C. by manufacturers and retailers