Community EPR Transition Planning Workshops

These three workshops will help prepare communities for changes to their waste management system following the transition to EPR. Each two-hour workshop will provide guidance and present tools and frameworks for communities to understand their current state, envision their future state, and develop an EPR transition plan.

The workshops will build off each other, requiring participants to complete activities between sessions. Related template material to support the workshop activities will be shared.

Workshop 1: Current State

This workshop will:

Recap of Alberta’s EPR Regulation as it relates to communities;
Introduce you to the transition tool framework and approach;
Help you understand the current state of your community’s waste system; and
Help you learn how to get the information on your current system.

Following the first workshop, communities will document existing waste management systems, including services, service levels, customers, service providers, business processes, facilities, equipment, and operating and capital costs.

Download the EPR Transition Planning Tool (Excel document)

Workshop 2: Future State

This workshop will:

Guide you to envision your community waste system’s future state scenarios;
Provide an overview of an EPR change management planning tool; and
Show you how to apply change management principles to understand what will start, stop, change, and continue under each scenario.

Following the second workshop, communities will complete the change management tool, and envision the future state of their waste management systems.

Download the EPR Transition Planning Tool With Completed Examples (Excel document)

Workshop 3: Transition Plan

This workshop will:

Show you how to develop a mock transition plan; and
Help you develop a timeline and key accountabilities.

Following the final workshop, communities will understand how to develop a transition plan with associated timelines, roles and responsibilities.

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Alberta Recycling Management Authority works with Albertans from all areas of our province, as such, we acknowledge the Indigenous Peoples who have and continue to live among, travel through and care for the land in the area currently known as Alberta. The relationship that Indigenous Peoples of Treaty 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10 have with the land is founded on a deep respect and relationship with the environment. This connection forms the foundation of our responsibility and vision of inspiring a future without waste.