OT: Ontario Environmental Handling Fees

[Michael Lauzon]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:07, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
>>
>> In case anybody's interested here is the table:
>> http://www.ontarioelectronicstewardship.ca/stewards/fees.html
>
> This message thread got me thinking of some questions about the program.
>
> How is the average user expected to know if they should be charged an
> environmental handling fee for an item? How are they supposed to know if the
> fee being charged is the "correct" amount? How can we know if the companies
> collecting these fees are passing on the amounts collected?
> --


When I worked at Wal-Mart in Calgary, we had some info sheets, etc.
showing what fee you were paying depending on the item and what size
the item was -- the latter was more for TVs -- of course Ontario more
or less got the idea of this fee from Alberta.


-- 
Sincerely,

Michael Lauzon
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