Packaging rule · Canada · EPR
Quebec modernized selective collection (EPR) system
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) rule covering all packaging in Quebec, Canada, set by Gouvernement du Québec (MELCCFP). Applies since 1 January 2025.
The rule
Recorded from the official source named below. Rates and dates are as the source states them on the date it was consulted.
- Jurisdiction
- Canada · Quebec
- Authority
- Gouvernement du Québec (MELCCFP)
- Rule type
- EPR
- Materials
- All packaging
- Status
- In force Enacted
- Adopted or published
- 1 January 2025
- Applies from
- 1 January 2025
From the source“The modernized selective collection system took effect on January 1, 2025.”
Official source Ministère de l'Environnement du Québec: Modernized Selective CollectionOfficial (government or regulator) · consulted 13 October 2026
Key dates
Adopted or published 1 year and 9 months ago
Applies from 1 year and 9 months ago
Source consulted by the SPI team today
What it means
SPI analysis Our reading of the official source above. Not legal advice; always rely on the official text.
SPI summary
Quebec's regulation respecting a system of selective collection makes producers of containers, packaging, printed matter and newspapers responsible for their recovery through a designated management body, Éco Entreprises Québec. The modernized system took effect on 1 January 2025.
In practice
Since 1 January 2025 Quebec's selective collection system has been run under extended producer responsibility, with Éco Entreprises Québec as the designated management body. Companies marketing containers, packaging, printed matter and some single-use products in Quebec, including brand owners and transactional websites selling to Quebec residents, finance the system through that body. Recovery and local reclamation targets by material start in 2027 and 2030, so recyclability and the destination of materials increasingly affect costs.
Who is in scope
- Producers that market, sell or otherwise distribute targeted products in Quebec, including brand owners domiciled or established in Quebec
- Managers of transactional websites selling covered products to Quebec individuals
- Containers, packaging, printed matter and newspapers, single-use products such as straws and utensils, and hooks and hangers
Who is not
- Syringes, certain medical bags such as IV solution bags, and aerosol containers of hazardous materials
- Energy recovery, landfill cover and biological treatment do not count as reclamation
What to do and by when
- NowCheck which entity in the supply chain is the obligated producer for Quebec sales.
- 1 January 2027Map packaging against the material recovery targets that start in 2027.
- 1 January 2030Review end markets for flexible plastics and PET ahead of local reclamation targets.
Related rules
- PR-CA-003 Ontario Blue Box Regulation (O. Reg. 391/21) full producer responsibility
Ontario's producer-run Blue Box program. - PR-CA-004 British Columbia packaging and paper product EPR (Recycle BC)
British Columbia's producer-funded packaging program. - PR-FR-001 France AGEC law: end of single-use plastic packaging by 2040
France's AGEC framework, a related francophone EPR and plastics model. - PR-EU-001 EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) applies
EU PPWR sets comparable recycling-oriented packaging obligations.
Where the record is unclear
- Small-producer thresholds or exemptions are not mentioned on the official pages reviewed.
- The ministry page refers to amendments in June 2026 without detail in the content reviewed.
- Producer fee schedules are set by the designated body and are not on the government pages.
Sources for this note
- Gouvernement du Québec: feuillet synthèse collecte sélective Consulted 13 October 2026
- Ministère de l'Environnement du Québec: Modernized Selective Collection Consulted 13 October 2026
- RECYC-QUÉBEC: Les entreprises et la collecte sélective Consulted 13 October 2026
Note written by the SPI team on 13 October 2026.
Where it sits in the tracker
- One of 6 packaging rules we track in Canada, of which 3 are EPR rules.
- In all, 25 EPR rules are tracked across 15 jurisdictions. Compare them below
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Change history
Sourced: an SPI analyst recorded the facts above from the official source. A second SPI team member has not re-checked it yet. Every change is logged here.
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