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How to participate

This engagement is open to everyone across the province, with specific opportunities for contributions from: 

• Residents
• Local governments
• Indigenous governments
• Businesses
• Other impacted organizations

One of the specific audiences we want to hear from is Indigenous Peoples, including Rights and Title holders; Métis, Inuit, and First Nations in urban settings. In addition to the other engagement opportunities offered, we welcome you to attend a roundtable session specifically for Indigenous participants. If you are interested in attending, please email CircularCommunities@gov.bc.ca.

The waste sorting bins you may see in schools and malls are just one small part of waste prevention programs that occur outside the home. The non-residential (ICI) sector includes diverse sources of waste, including:

• Light industrial sources such as agriculture, manufacturing, and jobsites
• Businesses such as retail stores, tourism, and restaurants 
• Institutions including hospitals, schools, and universities

Packaging can include everything used to protect, store, and contain products, such as a carboard boxes, plastic containers and film, and also many reusable solutions such as containers, cups, pallets, and crates.  

Your input matters as we look for solutions to keep packaging waste out of landfills and the environment. Your ideas can help prevent non-residential packaging waste at schools, offices, job-sites, cafés, and other spaces outside the home.

Learn more about waste prevention in B.C.

• Discussion paper on non-residential packaging waste
• Preventing plastic waste in B.C. at gov.bc.ca/reuse

Ways to participate

Next steps

Feedback will be used to help develop policies for preventing waste from non-residential packaging, plastic and paper across the province. The Province is looking for policy approaches that will have the best environmental outcomes and build on current successes.  

A What We Learned report and written submissions that meet the submission guidelines will be published in Fall 2024.

Who’s listening

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy is leading this engagement as part of its Extended Producer Responsibility Five-Year Action Plan. The results will be shared with a number of other ministries as we work together to prevent packaging waste in our province.