Blue Box Stewards 
Blue Box Resources
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Documents & Information
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Newsletters
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Information Sessions
At the heart of the Blue Box Program is the understanding that the groups that are most critical to the program’s success need to be actively involved in the decision-making process. During the initial development of the Blue Box Program Plan, Stewardship Ontario was required to conduct three separate consultations—with affected businesses and industry sectors, with Ontario municipalities and with the public. Stewardship Ontario consults regularly on issues ranging from annual changes to Rules and steward fees, to governance and market development.
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Information Sessions
2021 The 2021 Annual Steward Meeting for packaging and paper stewards took place o…
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Image & Video Library
- Jon Dwyer talks about extended producer responsibility
- Blue Box It
- Green Lids and Cans
- Innovative ideas and companies making Ontario a world leader in recycling
- North America has enormous, untapped non-carbon energy resources
- 2013 Sustainability Summit
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How taxpayer subsidies hide the true cost of energy
Guest speaker Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Many of issues we face today, such as war and climate change, are rooted in the way we use energy and waste resources
Guest speaker Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
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Historically major economic dislocations have generated unprecedented innovation such as the industrial revolution.
Guest speaker Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Free markets promote efficiency and the elimination of waste
Guest speaker Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Downloads
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Case Studies
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After the last drop – collecting, sorting and processing coffee cups
Over the past seven years, Stewardship Ontario and its partners have undertaken a range of studies to divert more coffee cups from landfill by improving how the cups are recycled. These collective efforts have spanned the range of recycling activities – from expanding curbside collection, to refining the sorting of cups at material recovery…
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Promising Cleantech Start-Ups
Ontario, the birthplace of the Blue Box, is perhaps one of the world’s most mature constituencies for stewardship and recycling behaviours. Discover how a passion for green chemistry could become a marketable environmental technology.
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Business Incubators Invest in GreenMantra Environmental Technology
Named one of the country’s most innovative companies, GreenMantra Technologies converts plastic household packaging into valuable commodities. Find out how Stewardship Ontario is helping shape this emerging green recycling technology.
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Mixed-Plastic Recycling Technology Diverts 10,000 Tonnes from Landfill
EFS-plastics Inc. makes resin pellets for new consumer products from used margarine containers, yogurt cups, caps, lids and plastic films, including shopping, frozen vegetable and bread bags. With the help of Stewardship Ontario, the Listowel company has expanded its recycling and reprocessing operations.
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Tim Hortons and Recycling Team Tests Curbside Collection of Beverage Cups
Approximately 395 households in the City of Burlington and 519 homes in the County of Brant have taken part in a three-month pilot recycling program to collect plastic-laminated paper beverage cups in their Blue Boxes. Find out how Stewardship Ontario helped make this happen.
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Sustainable Packaging Coalition Member, Burt’s Bees, Pioneers Changes and Increases Recyclability
Burt’s Bees has always followed its own flight path and pioneered natural, earth-friendly personal care products, embracing sustainability before the word was commonly known.
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Rigid Reclaim Process is Recycling Innovation
A Sarnia company is sorting and converting previously unrecyclable rigid plastics into raw materials for new products. Thanks largely to their process, 30 per cent more plastic was recovered in Ontario in 2012 than 2008. It has the potential to transform municipal recycling around the world.
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How Canada’s Top 5 Food Retailers Added More Plastic to the Blue Box
Stewardship Ontario teams up with industry associations and Canada’s big-five grocers to recycle rigid plastic food containers.
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How the Blue Box Helped Create a Blue Planet® at Canadian Tire
With more mixed rigid plastics and film in the Blue Box, Stewardship Ontario researched innovative recycling processes and new markets for the materials. Ontario’s Blue Box Stewards invested in new processing technology, and what followed led to a range of recycled household products at Canadian Tire.
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After the last drop – collecting, sorting and processing coffee cups
