How much will Canadian EPR fees cost your packaging?

Casper Sleep was hit with a $340K Ontario administrative monetary penalty in June 2024 for failing to register and report under the province’s EPR regulation. Roughly 75% of importers we talk to don’t realize they’re the “producer” the moment their product crosses the border.

✓ Ontario, Quebec, and BCall have separate producer-pays regimes — you must register in each province where you sell
✓ Importers count as producerswhen the foreign brand has no Canadian presence — you carry the obligation
✓ Penalties stack: up to $1M (Ontario), $30K (Quebec), $150K (BC) per offence

Your packaging volumes

Ontario

Annual revenue (CAD)

Threshold: $2M revenue OR 1,000 kg of any material

Paper / cardboard (kg/yr)

Plastic (kg/yr)

Metal (kg/yr)

Glass (kg/yr)

Quebec

We sell to Quebec customers (any revenue triggers obligation under Loi 102)

British Columbia

BC total packaging tonnage (kg/yr)

BC threshold: 15,000 kg of packaging into the BC market.

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