Café RICARDO restaurants among establishments offering on-site consumption ready for Phase 2 of modernization of the deposit-refund system Français
Toward 2025 – Phase 2 of deposit-refund modernization
MONTREAL, Nov. 13, 2024 /CNW/ - With Phase 2 of deposit-refund modernization just around the corner, establishments offering on-site consumption (known by their French abbreviation ÉCSP) are gearing up to recover beverage containers that will be newly redeemable. Café RICARDO restaurants, with support and guidance from Consignaction, are among the thousands of establishments in Quebec working to lower their environmental footprint.
Restaurants, along with hotels, bars and institutional cafeterias, have been subject to the new regulation since November 1, 2023, and as such must recover all redeemable beverage containers they sell. Currently, hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of containers from these locations are not finding their way into the deposit-refund system.
"Buy-in from establishments offering on-site consumption is essential to achieving the target container recovery rate of 90% by 2032. We are thrilled to have Café RICARDO restaurants on board with us," says Jean-François Lefort, Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, Quebec Beverage Container Recycling Association (QBCRA).
Café RICARDO restaurants welcome these changes. "We are committed to environmental stewardship, and this is already reflected in our procurement and management policies," says Mireille Arteau, General Manager, RICARDO Media. "Recovering redeemable beverage containers for recycling is another facet of this eco-conscious approach. Consignaction provided coaching to us on how to implement recovery efficiently in our kitchens, where space is at a premium."
All ÉCSPs in the province have had the obligation to recover their beverage containers since November 1, 2023. Moreover, those that serve meals to 75 or more people at a time were required to register on the dedicated portal at www.consignaction.ca. As of March 1, 2025, this measure will be extended to all ÉCSPs that serve meals to 20 or more people at once. When they register on the portal, managers of targeted establishments will not only find documentation on how to implement recovery solutions; they can also sign up for container pickup service, provided directly at their door and free of charge.
About Consignaction and the Quebec Beverage Container Recycling Association
Since 2001, programs branded with the Consignaction name have promoted beverage-container recovery to citizens and companies. Consignaction is the official emblem for promoting the activities of the Quebec Beverage Container Recycling Association (QBCRA) to the public and stakeholders. The QBCRA is the designated management body (DMB) for the development, implementation, financing and management of the modernized deposit-refund system, in line with the principle of extended producer responsibility (EPR). Its members are the various beverage producers involved in the recovery, reuse, recycling and reclamation of beverage containers in Quebec. For more information, visit www.consignaction.ca.
About RICARDO Media
RICARDO Media is a company with strong family values whose mission is to inspire, educate and bring people together to cook and share meals. Founded in 2002, RICARDO Media is Quebec's benchmark food company for consumers in both media and retail. The RICARDO brand's media strategy differentiates it: an eponymous magazine with 660,000 readers, a television program, some 15 books published in both English and French, over a million followers on social media, a website that generates 4.4 million visits a month and, since March 2023, a meal-planning tool and accompanying mobile application. In 2011, the company diversified by launching a line of kitchen accessories, available at 600 points of sale across Canada, making retail a strong new pillar of the company. Since then, RICARDO has added three boutiques and two restaurants under the name RICARDO Boutique + Café, as well as an online boutique. In 2018, it further responded to consumer needs by bringing food products to the shelves of IGA supermarkets in Quebec, following up with launches in Ontario and Western Canada. Thanks to this robust brand ecosystem, RICARDO Media reaches millions of loyal, engaged customers every day.
SOURCE Quebec Beverage Container Recycling Association (QBCRA)
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