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Stewardship Ontario appoints Lead for Advisory Group

… been personally engaged in Blue Box and other steward consultations. He co-chaired the review of the Four-Step Fee Methodology, which was recently adopted by Stewardship Ontario. He was also one of three senior Board members who worked with the Association of Municipalities of Ontario and the City of Toronto in 2017 to strike an accord requesting the transition of the Blue Box Program to full EPR. Most recently, he successfully led the former Boa…

Stewardship Ontario Board Appoints New Executive Director

…t. He joined Stewardship Ontario’s management team in 2007 and assumed the lead responsibility for the Blue Box Program. He took over the leadership of Stewardship Ontario in 2012, and in 2014 departed to establish his own clean technology practice, focusing on early-stage investment in emerging clean technologies. He returned as part of the independent management team appointed by the Stewardship Ontario Board in 2019 to lead the development of t…

RFP: Curbside, Multi-Residential and Depot Waste Composition Studies

…esidential, depot based residential collection and multi-residential waste composition studies in a number of selected municipalities in Ontario. The contractor will be responsible for collecting, sorting and classifying curbside residential and depot residential materials. Multi-residential wastes will be delivered to the sorting site and the contractor will be responsible for sampling, where required, sorting and classifying the materials. The d…

RPRA Approves Transition Plan with Conditions that Impact Steward Fees

…ng: The impact of adopting MCD on the in-kind amount paid to participating communities. Perceived competitive impacts of adopting MCD prior to transition. Scope of Stewardship Ontario’s Code of Conduct. Access to Stewardship Ontario’s data. Maintaining program performance. Updating the plan through the course of transition. Provision of information to RPRA. We are reviewing these conditions and will update stakeholders following the completion of …

Upcoming Final Single-use Battery Steward Invoices and Fee Reductions

… of 76%. Please note: Final financial reconciliations related to the single-use battery program will not be completed until the MHSW Program fully winds up on June 30, 2021. Resolution of final MHSW Program and financial obligations will require a few months to complete following the termination of the MHSW Program. If there are residual funds remaining in the program once all program financial obligations have been resolved, single-use battery st…

Single-use Battery Program Final Invoice Delay and Financial Update Webinar Materials

…binar materials are now available on the MHSW wind up webpage under ‘Single-use Battery Program Wind Up – June 30, 2020’. Final Single-use Battery Steward Invoices Delayed As noted during the webinar, Stewardship Ontario is waiting for resolution of a potentially significant steward adjustment. This means we need to delay issuance of the September 30 final steward invoices to allow us to include the anticipated steward adjustment in the fee reduct…

MHSW Single-use battery program winds up June 30, 2020

…on sites. Battery depot hour payments end. July 15, 2020: Deadline for pick-up of single-use batteries that were collected by June 30, 2020. August 31, 2020: Final submission deadline for municipal and service provider incentive claims. Please visit the MHSW Wind Up webpage for all information related to the implementation of the approved MHSW Wind Up Plan and materials from our recent single-use battery program wind up steps webinar: StewardshipO…

Consultation Materials on MHSW Wind Up Plan surplus fund amendments now available, feedback due May 22, 2020

…r’s directed amendments to the MHSW Wind Up Plan to return 100% of material-specific surplus funds to Industry Stewardship Organizations (ISOs) in one lump sum transfer. The presentation, webinar recordings and draft SO-ISO agreements are now available on the MHSW wind up webpage. We invite stakeholders to submit written feedback on the proposals discussed during the webinars to mhswwindup@stewardshipontario.ca up until Friday May 22, 2020. We wil…

Consultations on Minister’s Directed Amendments to MHSW Wind Up Plan

…ments to the approved MHSW Wind Up Plan which would return 100% of material-specific surplus funds to Industry Stewardship Organizations (ISOs) in one lump sum transfer. In a second letter received this week, the Minister granted an extension for submitting the amendments to the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) to June 5, 2020 in order to allow sufficient meaningful consultation with stakeholders given the current situation with…

Webinar: Single-use Battery Program Final Wind Up Steps

…io will be hosting a webinar to review key dates and final steps for single-use battery stakeholders. The webinar recording and presentation will be made available on the Stewardship Ontario website after the webinar for stakeholders to access. If you have any questions on the wind up process, please contact us at mhswwindup@stewardshipontario.ca. For information related to the new single-use battery framework and regulations, please visit the Res…