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  • Creation of ÉEQ
  • ÉEQ’s first accreditation agreement with RECYC-QUÉBEC
  • Signature of the first agreement regarding net costs of municipal curbside recycling services, replacing Collecte sélective Québec
  • Release of the first Schedules of Contributions (2005 and 2006)
  • Creation of the away-from-home recovery program
  • Participation in the development of a campaign to make Quebecers aware of the positive impacts of curbside recycling
  • Development of the first characterization study on residential residual materials, in partnership with RECYC-QUÉBEC 
  • Publication of ÉEQ’s best practices guide for municipalities
  • Release of ÉEQ’s voluntary code of best practices for the use of shopping bags
  • Membership in the International Life Cycle Chair
  • Support for sorting centres in Québec
  • Release of ÉEQ’s program to recognize responsible packaging
  • “Produire et consommer autrement” seminar led by ÉEQ
  • Legislative change that includes magazines in the “printed matter” category
  • Release of ÉEQ datasheets on problematic materials
  • North America’s first credits for recycled content granted by ÉEQ
  • Launch of ÉEQ’s first public awareness-building campaign: Récupérer c’est recréer
  • Release of ÉEQ’s voluntary code for the optimization of containers, packaging and printed matter
  • Signature of second accreditation agreement and presentation of the first activity-based costing (ABC) model for surbside recycling in Quebec
  • ÉEQ’s second accreditation agreement with RECYC-QUÉBEC
  • ÉEQ’s tour of municipalities
  • Creation of bacs+ by ÉEQ
  • First activity-based costing model (in partnership with RECYC-QUÉBEC)
  • Financing 100% of the collection, transport, sorting and conditioning costs of municipal curbside recycling programs
  • New joint investments by ÉEQ and the Ministère de l’Environnement in away-from-home recovery program
  • Release of ÉEQ’s Best Practices Initiative
  • Launch of ÉEQ’s OptimEco.ca packaging and printed matter optimization portal
  • ÉEQ wins the Novae corporate citizen award in the innovation category for its OptimEco website
  • Launch of ÉEQ’s OptimEco kit
  • Establishment of an a multi-stakeholder committee of representatives and partners of the Compensation Plan
  • Launch of the curbside recycling ambassadors program
  • ÉEQ reviewed its business model 
  • 2015 Solutions that matter forum
  • Major investments by ÉEQ in its Innovative Glass Works plan
  • Change to the financing formula in order to stabilize the company contributions
  • Introduction of a mechanism to limit rate increases into the Schedule of Contributions development process so as to improve the predictability of the financial contributions
  • Implementation of the initiative to optimize company reports
  • Maryse Vermette, CEO, co-chaired the advisory committee on residual materials of the Ministry of Environment
  • The Services to Municipalities branch was created
  • Recognition that curbside recycling is a telling example of circular economy and sustainable development
  • Release of the Innovative Glass Works plan and launch of two measures
  • Assembly of the expert committee on curbside recycling
  • Implementation of a preliminary reporting process to submit data on a fixed date
  • Launch of the eeqecoeresponsable.com microsite
  • ÉEQ adopts a new organizational model 
  • ÉEQ publishes the bilingual document titled Do we need another packaging?, in collaboration with UQAM’s graphic design department
  • The first Best Practices Workshop was given for Quebec’s 10 largest cities
  • ÉEQ offices were redesigned and renovated with eco-materials from Quebec curbside recycling
  • ÉEQ became a partner of the first study on the circular economy in Quebec, which was carried out by experts from the Institut EDDEC and the Research Group on Globalisation and Management of Technology (GMT) at Polytechnique Montréal, for a transition to a greener economy.
  • With its French counterpart Citeo, ÉEQ co-organized the Plastic Solutions Forum
  • Developed a new section on the website to facilitate reporting
  • Had 8,000 direct communications with companies
  • Welcomed over 425 participants in various webinars
  • Carried out over 25 municipal guidance projects
  • Held 18 meetings and events
  • Guided over 50 companies through their packaging ecodesign initiatives
  •  Unveiled the much-anticipated Innovative Glass Works Plan
  • Unveiled the Ecodesign and Circular Economy Plan (ECEP), a North American first
  • Announcement in February by the Government of Quebec on the modernization of curbside recycling
  • Tabling of Bill 65 in September