Manitoba to impose 80% blue box levy on magazines

Manitoba is following Ontario's lead in blue box recycling levies for magazines, and one-upping it. According to a story in Masthead, Manitoba publishers will begin paying beginning April 1, 2010 if the new legislation goes through, as seems likely. Publishers would receive an invoice on May 1, based on 2009 data.Stewardship Ontario now requires publishers to pay 50% of the net imputed costs of