Product Care Recycling - Scrap Yard in Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada

About Yard

Product Care Recycling works to protect the environment by providing free recycling locations for consumers to bring products like paint, household hazardous waste, lights and alarms.We divert these post-consumer products from Canada’s landfills and waterways, ensuring they are managed responsibly at their end-of-life.

We are a federally incorporated not-for-profit organization, and provide recycling services across nine Canadian provinces. Product Care encourages individuals and businesses to reduce their waste and reuse when possible, and we provide recycling solutions for post-consumer products.

History :

In 1994, the province of British Columbia introduced Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations for paint, obligating paint producers (retailers, manufacturers, etc.) to develop recycling processes for their end-of-life products. The regulations were stringent and comprehensive, requiring producers to create collection networks, product transportation systems, processing standards, reporting and auditing practices, public awareness and education strategies, and more.

In response, paint producers united to form Product Care (then called Paint Care), a not-for-profit organization that would manage every aspect of the provincial EPR requirements on their behalf, ensuring that its members (aka paint producers) were compliant.

Paint Care was a tremendous success, capturing significant volumes of paint in its recycling program. In subsequent years, the company was renamed to Product Care when it expanded throughout Canada and the United States and added more products to its purview. Today, Product Care manages four different product groups. These products include paint, household hazardous waste (pesticides, flammable liquids, corrosives, toxics, solvents and more), light bulbs, and smoke and CO alarms, which were all added in response to EPR regulations around these products.

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