Stewardship Report 2019

Reducing Ontario’s Footprint with Every Container

At The Beer Store, we are serious about our commitment to the environment. We work hard every day to protect the environment by facilitating the reuse and recycling of beer containers and the packaging they are sold in.

Reducing Ontario’s Footprint with Every Container, the 2019 Beer Store Annual Stewardship Report for primary and secondary alcohol packaging, includes details on The Beer Store’s deposit return system for beer containers and the Ontario Deposit Return Program (ODRP) for non-Beer Store listed beer, wine, spirit, and cooler containers.

Highlights of our performance in 2019:

• Over 1.82 billion beverage alcohol containers collected from Ontario consumers (over 1.4 billion beer containers and over 406 million ODRP containers)
• Recovery rate of 85% for beer containers
• 97% of all refillable beer bottles sold in Ontario were returned – these bottles are reused an average of 15 times before being recycled into new glass bottles
• 79% of wine, spirit, cooler and non-Beer Store listed beer containers (ODRP containers) were recovered.
• Over 207,000 tonnes of GHG emissions avoided as a result of these programs – equivalent to taking 44,777 cars off Ontario’s roads and highways
• Social media and in-store promotional and educational campaigns

We invite you to download a copy and learn more

Here’s how the containers are recycled and re-used

Aluminum Cans

Recycled into new aluminum sheet which can be used to make new aluminum cans.

Refillable Bottles

Recycled into new aluminum sheet which can be used to make new aluminum cans.

Plastic Bottles

Recycled into plastic strapping and felted automotive parts and other miscellaneous plastic products.