Canada – The owners of a Canadian recycling company have been instructed to pay out C$ 845 000 (Euro 600 000) for illegally cashing in on out-of-province beverage containers.
The firm illegally transported more than 8 million beverage cans from the Yukon territories to the province of Alberta and collected refunds on them. The containers were purchased from a Yukon recycling company and then shipped in large bales to a location in Edmonton where they were disassembled, sorted and delivered to a depot.
The fraud was discovered when the number of containers processed through the Alberta company increased more than tenfold between January 2012 and January 2013. There was ‘clear intention to defraud the recycling system’, according to Canada’s Environmental Appeals Board.
‘Their behaviour did not demonstrate they appreciated the seriousness of the contraventions to the beverage container recycling system,’ it is added. The board describes the recyclers’ acts as ‘major offences with major impacts on the environment’.
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