I sit on the Alberta Beverage Container Management Board, which oversees the deposit return system. Alberta enjoys the highest plastic bottle collection rate in Canada, at 82.3%—if I'm rhyming my latest numbers off—with an overall recovery rate of 85.5% for all beverage containers.
Extended producer responsibility is not unknown to Alberta, though it's needed for a broader range of materials, for sure. The call by Alberta municipalities is because of the restrictions on the Asian markets and the need for a made-in-Canada solution to deal with those plastics. I would contend, as I have throughout my talk, that producers are best situated to work with the recyclers to build those supply chains to deal with that problem.