Final Notice Regarding The Plastics Registry Is Issued – Is Your Business Targeted?

In the April 20^th edition of the Canada Gazette, Environment and Climate Change Canada ("ECCC") published a notice (the "Notice") confirming that it was implementing a new federal plastics registry (the "Registry") which will require certain businesses to provide to the government information on plastics that it has disseminated into the Canadian marketplace. As we discussed in our previous client alert on the Registry, when consultations and the Technical Paper supporting the Registry were launched last year, the goal of this Registry would be to produce consistent data nationally on end-of-life management of plastic products and packaging. The Notice expands on this, indicating that the Registry is being created "for the purpose of conducting research, creating an inventory of data, formulating objectives and codes of practice, issuing guidelines or assessing or reporting on the state of the environment".