…ucers responsible for financing and operating collection services to local communities, managing blue box materials and establishing targets to increase diversion rates. Stewardship Ontario is reviewing the Regulation to determine what changes may be required to the Blue Box Transition Plan that the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) approved with conditions in December 2020 following stakeholder consultations. Further information…
…Lyle’s previous Program Operations Officer role will be combined with those of Executive Director. I hope you’ll take the opportunity to congratulate Lyle over the coming weeks as he takes on his new role. Robyn Collver Chair, Stewardship Ontario Board of Directors …
… conduct curbside residential, 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 t…
…dship Ontario’s approved Blue Box Program Transition Plan. The approved plan outlines three key measures: Two new policies related to the segregation of select CSSA staff and prohibitions on solicitation of Stewardship Ontario stewards. Attestations and due diligence reporting to ensure compliance with the new policies and the existing CSSA confidentiality policy. An amendment to the Code of Conduct to apply to all Stewardship Ontario staff. The A…
… topic suggestions for the webinar can be submitted in advance by email. Contact National Steward Services for reporting assistance: 1-888-980-9549 or stewards@cssalliance.ca. …
…oved. In the Transition Plan, Stewardship Ontario proposed to use MCD as a new input to fee-setting to provide better and more reliable data on the cost impacts of each material in the recycling system. Other Blue Box programs in Canada have already started the process of replacing the Activity Based Costing (ABC) Methodology with MCD and have set 2021 steward fees using the Four-Step Fee Methodology and a 50/50 blend of the MCD and ABC methodolog…
… 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…
We are currently looking for two industry directors to join us on our transition journey. Successful candidates will assist the board in fulfilling its fiduciary oversight obligations as Stewardship Ontario winds up its operations pursuant to its Transition Plans for Blue Box and MHSW. If you have a passion for or an interest in environmental stewardship programs, have assisted organizations in the past with the implementation of significant chan…
…ed a proposed producer responsibility regulation for the Blue Box Program under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016 and proposed amendments to Ontario Regulation 101/94. The proposed regulation makes producers responsible for providing collection services to local communities, managing blue box materials and establishing targets to increase diversion rates, tackling plastic waste and protecting the environment. Feedback on these r…
…ule at the Annual Steward Meeting (ASM) while highlighting that it was still subject to approval as part of RPRA’s review and consultation on the Transition Plan. With RPRA’s condition to defer MCD, we had to recalculate 2021 fees using the Four-Step Fee Methodology and ABC Methodology alone, without MCD. We encourage you to review the new, approved 2021 steward fee schedule. 2021 Blue Box Steward Rules The 2021 Blue Box Steward Rules have been up…