Jars packaging EPR Alberta: what a glass jar costs per 1,000 packs, 2027

What this page estimates for a glass jar in Alberta

The glass jar on this page is a jar closed by a metal lid with a plastic seal, with a paper label stuck on the glass. It has 3 components, each matched to the published rates of the 2027 schedule of Circular Materials Alberta (ARMA PPP) for Alberta; weight times rate gives a fee per 1,000 packs in CAD. The figures are estimates built on starting weights.

What is in a glass jar

The jar has three components: the glass body, the metal lid and the paper label. Each is matched to its own published rate.

Starting weights, an Instica estimate for a typical pack and not a measured weight: jar (glass, 190 g), lid (steel, 9 g), and label (paper, 2 g).

Jar

glass, 190 g (Instica starting estimate)

Lid

steel, 9 g (Instica starting estimate)

Label

paper, 2 g (Instica starting estimate)

Worked example: 1,000 glass jars in Alberta

One glass jar of the Medium (about 8 to 9 oz) size weighs 201 g in total. For each component the table gives its weight, the matched published rates, and the fee for 1,000 packs.

Added together, the estimate for 1,000 packs is CA$84.44 to CA$88.90.

Divide by 1,000 for a single pack: about CA$0.0844 to CA$0.0889.

What the fee tool returns for 1,000 glass jars in Alberta

Entered into the public fee tool for Alberta (2027 schedule, effective January 1, 2027), 1,000 glass jars give the figures below. The tool is the same engine that prices a report, so this page and the tool agree.

The tool total is CA$84.44 at the lowest matched rates and CA$88.90 at the highest.

Which published rates were matched in Alberta

7 published rates were matched to the pack in Alberta from the 2027 schedule. Each is quoted from the programme’s own fee table; the page does not change the rate or round it.

Jar, 190 g: 2 matched rates

Lid, 9 g: 3 matched rates

Label, 2 g: 2 matched rates

How size changes the fee for a glass jar

The weight of a glass jar depends on its size. The table prices each of the 4 sizes with the same matched rates, so the only thing that changes between rows is the weight.

Each component of the glass jar priced at every size, at the matched rates for Alberta.

What if the glass jar used another material?

Suppose the main component of the glass jar, weighing 190 g, were made of another material. The table prices the same weight in each material class that Alberta publishes a rate for, at the lowest published rate in that class.

A fee comparison only: another material changes weight and protection too.

What a larger run of glass jars costs in Alberta

Fees scale with the number of packs, because the schedule charges by mass. The table repeats the worked example for larger runs of the Medium (about 8 to 9 oz) glass jar in Alberta. Nothing else changes between rows: the same weights and the same matched rates apply.

Taken as a whole, the pack is priced at CA$0.4201 to CA$0.4423 per kilogram of packaging, so a heavier pack costs more in proportion to its weight.

Flat fee bands, registration fees and minimum charges sit outside this per-kilogram table.

How the fee for glass jars has moved on Alberta schedules

Alberta has published 3 per-mass fee schedules that price this pack. The same Medium (about 8 to 9 oz) glass jars are priced on each below, with the same weights and the same matching rules, so only the published rates differ.

The same matched categories on each Alberta schedule, per kilogram; a dash means the schedule does not publish that category.

The fee schedule behind these figures for Alberta

The rates come from the 2027 schedule of Circular Materials Alberta (ARMA PPP) for Alberta, effective January 1, 2027. The facts below record where it was published and what else the schedule charges.

Ways to lower the fee on a glass jar

Glass is heavy, so glass weight dominates the total. A lighter jar for the same volume lowers the fee more than any change to the lid or label.

The metal lid and the paper label are small in mass, but they are priced as steel and paper, which can cost more or less per kilogram than glass.

Where a programme publishes a separate rate for coloured glass or for refillable glass, the colour and the reuse model of the jar can change the line it falls under.

Food and cosmetics sellers often change jar size by a few grams between suppliers, which is why the size table above shows each size on its own.