This white paper looks at how EPR for packaging and paper products works in practice and focuses on the experience in British Columbia Packaging and paper products are the most diverse of all products potentially subject to EPR laws The number of manufacturers and retailers, the types of products in the marketplace, the multi-material nature of many of those products, the supply chain with differing distribution channels and the evolving impact of e-commerce all create a particularly challenging form of EPR. What appears to be a relatively simple concept is highly complex in its execution