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PR3, the private-public partnership for reusable packaging, has developed this standard to integrate and support diverse reuse initiatives. The standard sets core requirements for aligning reuse systems between companies and brands, allowing a wide range of businesses to easily plug into shared infrastructure. The standard helps to minimize reuse system costs and investor risks, while maximizing accessibility, social equity, and environmental performance across the reuse supply chain.
Our facility and our staff follow the Ontario Food Premise Regulations throughout all of our operational practices.
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The Government is proposing the publication of a pollution prevention (P2) planning notice (P2 Notice) as an alternative instrument to reduce the environmental impact of primary food plastic packaging as part of its comprehensive agenda to address plastic waste and prevent pollution.
The proposed P2 Notice would require large Canadian Grocers to report on the following risk mitigation objectives:
Objective 1
Reduce the environmental impact of primary food plastic packaging along the value chain to the greatest extent practicable through the elimination of unnecessary or problematic packaging and design for circularity
Target: 2035
Objective 2
Fresh fruits and vegetables are distributed and sold in bulk and/or in plastic-free packaging
Targets:
75% by 2026
95% by 2028
Objective 3
All primary food plastic packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable*
Target: 100% by 2028
* Where local composting facilities accept these products and subject to proposed federal standards (expected to be published fall 2023)
Objective 4
Develop strategies, outside of fresh produce, to increase, by a certain percentage, the sale of:
products within a reuse-refill system*
products free of plastic packaging and/or
concentrated products
Targets:
20% by 2026
50% by 2030
60% by 2035
Companies would have the flexibility to meet reuse/refill system targets using non-food products. This would recognize and encourage other opportunities for reuse-refill systems, plastic package-free, and concentrated alternatives for non-food products commonly sold by large grocery retailers. Examples include personal care products (for example, shampoo, soap) and cleaning products (for example, laundry detergent).
* products within a reuse-refill system must account for at least 50% of the above targets.
Objective 5
Non-reusable* plastic food packaging contains post-consumer recycled (PCR) content**
Targets:
Annual average of:
10% by 2028
20% by 2030
30% by 2035
* Recycled content targets would not apply to reusable plastic packaging
** The Government of Canada is proposing to require minimum recycled content in beverage containers, as part of proposed recycled content and labelling rules for certain plastic items. Any regulatory requirements for beverage containers would supersede P2 requirements.