I fully support EPR with…

I fully support EPR with this new overhaul of the blue bin program. Making producers responsible for their own products is key in ensuring that the cost of recycling and/or landfill falls onto the manufacturers and takes the burden off the public where we have no choice.
What I find issue in is expanding the number of allowable items in the blue box to include products that CANNOT be recycled. When I say it cannot be recycled it can include any of the following:
1) No means to separate the material at the MRF . Lack of infrastructure to sort, separate and clean materials to the high standard that is needed to sell it as a product to an end market.
2) High contamination rates (ie. Food waste) render a recyclable material to be non-recyclable due to cleanliness.
3) No local end market for certain materials (mainly Polystyrene - which includes cutlery, coffee cup lids, foam packaging, straws, stir sticks).
4) Recycling facilities not having adequate space for storage of certain materials before they are accepted by the end market (ie. most plastic end markets want 40,000lbs of ONE type of plastic before they will except the material.

Making producers pay is one thing, making a product that can be recycled is also one thing, but nothing can be recycled if there is no end market for that product - and I dont see any information on that here. Would these materials be exported? If so, who is ensuring they are recycled in those countries?
Just because an item is placed in the blue bin, doesnt mean it actually gets diverted. Diversion rates are based on whether or not that item was placed in the correct bin by the consumer. It does not track down the chain of custody for that item and ensure that its end of life was NOT the landfill.

Thank you,