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Continuous Improvement Fund

…laced on transitional support activities up until December 31, 2024; cease public operations on December 31, 2024 and initiate a windup of its operations in 2025 with an expectation that such activities will be completed by no later than June 30, 2025; or, give consideration to extending operations by one year, subject to the availability of sufficient funds to do so. Continuous Improvement Fund website …

Municipality Information

…ogram documents and information related to:  Municipal Funding Allocation Model Annual Datacall (data reported by municipalities) In-kind Advertising Program RPRA website …

Reporting

…d pay the associated fees, with invoices for back reports due immediately. Companies with historic obligations that do not file complete and accurate 2020 and 2021 reports prior to July 31, 2022, will not be part of simplified reporting and will have to file detailed reports for 2022 and annually until Stewardship Ontario is wound up. Reporting information about data collection, material categories and calculating weights is detailed in the Produc…

Registration

…prompted to set your own password.  An online Portal User Guide provides details for the registration steps: Select Stewardship Ontario as your program.  Identify a Primary Contact and complete and submit the Primary Contact Form. Respond to obligation questions and confirm the obligation reporting years for your organization. …

Am I a Blue Box Steward?

…cting and reporting material data  Stewards with gross sales over $2 million annually but with total reported packaging and paper product quantities of less than 15,000 kg (15 tonnes) must register and report their materials to Stewardship Ontario but are exempt from paying fees. New stewards should refer to the program’s Onboarding Policy and also be aware of the Blue Box transition to a new regulatory framework, the introduction of simplified fe…

New Stewards

… In Ontario, obligated businesses and organizations are required to report and pay fees to Stewardship Ontario for all years they are responsible for supplying designated material to residents of the province.  Information in this section helps you determine if you are an obligated steward, and advises how to register with Stewardship Ontario and submit material reports. …

Four-Step Fee Methodology and 2022 Fee Rates

…ology works: Step 1 allocates the gross cost of the recycling system – the collection and processing activities. Activity Based Costing (ABC) per tonne provides the material cost input. Step 2 allocates the commodity revenue to those materials that have earned the revenue. Step 3 allocates the program management cost of the stewardship program. Step 4 will add material specific promotion and education and/or market development. The fee rates for 2…

Steward Information

…about the MHSW wind up is available here. As the Blue Box transitions to a new regulatory framework and Stewardship Ontario prepares to wind up the organization after 2025, stewards (referred to as producers under the new Blue Box Regulation) will temporarily have obligations to both Stewardship Ontario and the Resource Productivity & Recovery Authority. Information in this section will help you determine if you are a steward and outlines your obl…

Simplified Fee Setting

…esponding acquisition by another steward) Discontinuance of a product line Newspapers subject to the CNA/OCNA Amendment to the Stewardship Ontario Blue Box Program Plan. Forms must be completed to request a modification to a simplified fee percent share allocation for product line Divestitures or Discontinuances. Stewardship Ontario is available to assist with questions about how the Policy circumstances apply to individual situations and can advi…

Stewardship Ontario Improving Website

…’s transition will be removed. The existing website technology has been in place for several years. Since SO’s launch in 2004 documents have been continually uploaded to the site and the navigation paths to reach specific materials have become increasingly complex. The updated site addresses this issue. All material on the existing website will be maintained in an archive and will be accessible on an as-requested basis. A second announcement close…