1990 BILL 216 Second Session, 22nd Legislature, 39 EUzabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 216

AN ACT TO PROMOTE RECYCLING INDUSTRIES IN ALBERTA MR. McINNIS First Reading Second Reading Committee of the Whole Third Reading Royal Assent

Bill 216 Mr. Mclnnis BILL 216 1990

AN ACT TO PROMOTE RECYCLING INDUSTRIES IN ALBERTA (Assented to ,1990) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as foUows: Policy declaration Amends c.D-19 RSA 1980 1 It is hereby recognized and declared that it is pubUc policy in the Province of Alberta (

a) to preserve and protect a viable flourishing biosphere by reducing the amount of waste produced by our society. (

b) to re-use discarded material whenever possible. (

c) to reprocess and recycle what cannot be reused, and (

d) to recover useful products or energy through material transformations of items that can no longer be recycled in their present material composition. 2(1) The Department of the Environment Act is amended by this section.

(2) The following is added after

section 5: 5.1 The Minister shaU establish a waste management workmg group and shall table in the Legislative Assembly a report containing: (1) an analysis of the contents, locations and sources of the current waste stream in Alberta; (2) a survey of current recycling industries in Alberta; 1

Amends SA 1984 (3) a survey of current waste management industries and government departments in Alberta; (4) an analysis of potential recycling and recovery from the existing waste stream. 5.2 The Minister of the Environment shall cause the Special Waste Management Corporation to provide for household toxic waste collection throughout Alberta and may provide grants for this purpose subject to the appropriation of funds for this purpose by the Legislature.

(3) The foUowing is added after

section 8(2) (b): (b.

l) developing funding guidelines for grants to municipalities for capital equipment, public education and collection services in support of local recycUng programs and initiatives. 3(1) The Department of Public Works, Supply jmd Services Act is amended by this section.

(2) The following is added after

section 8: 8.1 The Minister shall conduct research into: (

a) the availability of recycled products for use by the government and others in Alberta; (

b) the potential for further production of supplies from past consumption waste materials; and (

c) the preparation of guides for government departments of the government and others on how they can maximize the use of recycled products.

(3) Section 9 is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

(2.1) The Minister may make loans by way of advances to manufacturers or suppliers against delivery of recycled products for the use of departments where such loans are required, in the opinion of the Minister to secure suppUes or to cause their manufacture providing money has been appropriated to the purpose by the Legislature.

(4) Section 11 is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):

(4) The Minister shaU promote the use of envkonmentally sensitive products by all departments by: (

a) acquiring and providing to each department supphes which contain the highest possible content of past consumption waste to the fuUest extent that such recycled products are avaUable, including but not limked to: (

i) paper and paper products, (

U) motor oU and derivatives, (iii) steel and steel products, (iv) aluminium and aluminium products, (

v) plastics and plastic products (vi) construction and other building materials, (vii) tires and rubber products; (

b) ensuring that no paper or paper products are purchased which originate with pulp miUs that do not fully meet the strictest current Alberta standard for effluent in respect of chlorinated organic compounds; (

c) ensuring that no department uses any product containing chloroflorocarbons or made through a process using chloroflorocarbons, unless the department can show: (

i) that there is no alternative product avaUable, and (ii) it is not possible to carry out its mandate without the product. Amends c.i2 RSA 5^^^ 77,^ ^k^j^ ^j^ ^^^ -^ amcridcd by this section.

(2) The following is added after

section 4(6) (a. 1): (a.2) require a company extracting natural resources to utilize a specified minimum amount of post-consumer waste in its production process. 1980"' "^^ ^^'^ ^(V Ph^ Clean Water Act is amended by this section.

(2) The following is added after

section 4(6) (a. 1): (a.2) require a company extracting natural resources to utilize a specified minimum amount of post-consumer waste in its production process. re'^clfnr'"" 7(1) Whcrc sufficicnt supplies of recycled products are available of sullicicnt quality, the Minister of the Environment may enter

negotiations with industrial processors regarding poUcies and procedures for increasing the use of recycled products by industry.

(2) Following such negotiations, the Lieutenant Governor in CouncU may by regulation set industry-wide content standards for recycled product content in products sold in and from the Province of Alberta. Financial g xhc Minister of Economic Development and Trade shaU assistance ... , ensure that no person extractmg a vu-gin natural resource or processing such a resource shaU receive provincial assistance which is greater then is or would be avaUable to a person engaged in reusing, recycling or recovering discarded or waste material. Commencement 9 'pjjjg ^^f comes iuto forcc OU Proclamatiou. Title: 1990 (22nd 2nd) Bill 216,

An Act to Promote Recycling Industries in Alberta