This case traces the effort by the Liberal Government of Ontario, Canada, to introduce recycling fees as a piece of the government's larger provincial waste management plan on a sizable range of household products. In 2008, Stewardship Ontario began to impose recycling fees on a restricted variety of household products, fees that retailers and manufacturers passed on to the consumers at the point of transaction. The consumers in Ontario seemed to accept these fees as portion of the expense of conducting business in a state which was attempting to become a greener and not as wasteful place to call home.
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Nevertheless, in 2010, Stewardship Ontario altered the fee structure on household products from a product-based to a stuff-based construction: merchandises were now assessed a fee according to the type and level of material (chemical, metal, plastic) in the product. This change substantially enlarged the number of products on which a recycling fee could be assessed, and it considerably complicated the fee structure for both consumer and company. Consumers this time took notice of the new fees, and, objecting to the fee structure's dearth of transparency and to the number of new fees, they called on the Minister of the Environment to explain it or at least to trash the plan.
PUBLICATION DATE: November 01, 2010 PRODUCT #: 910M95-HCB-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about LEADERSHIP & MANAGING PEOPLE
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