Newspapers should be exempt from proposed fees
By Lethbridge Herald on May 5, 2023.
Editor:
I am writing this note to all the Albertans who are receiving a printed version of a newspaper. Our Alberta government is proposing a fee on your newspaper.
This comes in the form of development of a Provincial Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework. They are looking at including your newspaper in this framework. That would mean an additional cost of around $2 million per year for all the newspapers in Alberta.
This EPR is supposed to be for industry funded programs for plastics, packaging and hazardous household waste. Some provinces seem to feel a newspaper is a packaging product. I believe a paper newspaper is not packaging. Apparently, Ontario agrees and has exempted newspapers from these fees.
We receive the Lethbridge Herald and love to have it in our house. We recycle every page. I have written to our MLA, Lethbridge-East, Mr. Neufeld and have received no response even though I have sent it twice. The MLA for Lethbridge-West has asked me if he has responded and I informed the member that no reply has been sent to me.
Mr. Neufeld is a deputy premier, and I am sure he is fully aware of this proposed fee. I respectfully ask our MLA to respond to this letter as to where he stands on the EPR inclusion of newspapers as packaging.
Earl Barton
Lethbridge
9-8
Newspapers are packaging Earl. The curbside organics user guilde shows you how to fold papers in “organics oragami ” so as to allow you to deliver you fetid stinkables , at a cost of course , to the landfill.
Your letter is also a packaging…of an NDP propaganda piece….lol
..And UCP false hopes and lies.
Missed this lumpy.