The city of Rivière-du-Loup will eventually be able to count on a return location for returnable containers. The building which recently housed the Bon Voyage restaurant, owned by the Mach Group, is also targeted.
The elected officials of the City of Rivière-du-Loup submitted a draft regulation which will allow this specific use in this sector of the city, this Monday, December 9. It will be officially presented and adopted at a next ordinary session. It would just be a formality.
In the press scrum, Mayor Mario Bastille claimed to have few details on the project, simply explaining that the territory of the City of Rivière-du-Loup had been identified for the establishment of a return point and that this should be supervised.
“We wanted to allow it in this sector, because it is central, but we also wanted to ensure quality. We don’t want bottles lying around outside, for example. This is why it was important to specify it,” he explained.
“We have had a request, we are preparing, but for the future, we do not know what will happen.”
For the moment, it is impossible to know when the building will be opened in its new colors, nor what type of return location will be favored. Requests addressed to Groupe Mach and Consignaction have so far remained unanswered.
A document made public on the Consignaction website, addressed to municipalities, indicates, however, that the Louperi project at 95 rue des Cerisiers is one of around sixty “official return locations” as of October 2024. Consignaction type locations and Consignactions +, in the form of stores equipped with automated recycling machines and storage areas, are planned. A letter of intent was even signed.
At the end of November, Quebec postponed for two years the implementation of the deposit system for glass beverage containers and multi-layer packaging (such as cardboard pints of milk) due to delays accumulated by the organization responsible for this file . An administrative investigation was also requested.
It is the Quebec Association for the Recovery of Beverage Containers (AQRCB), under the name Consignaction, which was mandated in 2022 by Recyc-Québec to manage the deposit.
Currently, according to -, Quebec hopes to put 1,200 return points into operation in Quebec, including 400 Consignaction sites and 800 directly at various retailers in the province.
Only around twenty sites have been opened so far in Quebec.
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