 Paint Product Category
Regulatory History
Effective September 1994, the Post-Consumer Paint Stewardship Program Regulation required producers and consumers of paints to take responsibility for the management of their leftovers or wastes. To comply with this regulation, producers of paints developed province-wide paint collection depots.
With the enactment of the Environmental Management Act (EMA) on July 8, 2004, EMA combined the Waste Management Act and the Environment Management Act to create a single statute governing environmental protection and management in British Columbia. The new act incorporated provisions allowing for the development of innovative and modern regulatory regimes, one such regime is the Recycling Regulation (BC Reg. 449/04).
The Recycling Regulation, enacted in October 2004, replaced the Post-Consumer Paint Stewardship Program Regulation. As such, the Recycling Regulation provides the statutory basis for the existing paint product stewardship program, as well as provides a legal framework for establishing new programs. The paint product category is defined under Residual Product Categories in Schedule 2 of the Recycling Regulation.
Bailed paint cans en route to be recycled.
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