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Recycling Council of Ontario CANADIAN PACKAGING EPR 24 October 2019 Not-for-profit, membership-based organization Focused on policies and practices that advance the circular economy Recycling Council of Ontario supporting resource

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Recycling Council of Ontario

CANADIAN PACKAGING EPR 24 October 2019

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  • Not-for-profit, membership-based organization
  • Focused on policies and practices that advance the circular economy

supporting resource efficiency, waste reduction, and reduced GHG emissions

  • Instrumental in developing Ontario’s original curbside Blue Box program
  • Policy and advocacy, program development & management, research &

pilot projects

  • Campaigns for greater transparency and information exchange to inform

meaningful multi-stakeholder engagement

  • Facilitates discussions/agreements: Government / Private / Public
  • Outcomes and principles-based policy making
  • Advocates for verifiable environmental outcomes
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EPR for Printed Paper and Packaging

  • Ontario’s PPP (Blue Box) program began as pilot in late

1980s

  • Partnership between municipalities and a small set of

producers (beverage category)

  • Started with a ‘test’ in one municipality with a small

scope of packaging types

  • Success led to entrenched model in regulation where

municipalities with population greater than 5,000 required to offer curbside collection for packaging

  • For 20+ years municipalities subsidised service through

taxes

  • Grew and improved operations to include broader scope

materials

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Old World Waste Diversion Act (WDA), 2002

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  • WDA required producers to cover 50% of the cost for

collection and recycling Blue Box materials

  • PPP regulation under the WDA established
  • Ontario’s first Industry Funding Organizations (IFOs) or

Collectives were given legal authority to charge and collect fees from producers to pay their 50%

  • Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO) established to ensure

IFOs were formed and submitted plans that met requirements

  • Municipalities maintain autonomy as to design and

management of their individual program: scope of materials, service levels, costs

  • Municipalities report tonnes to WDO and SO to trigger

payments

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EPR for Printed Paper and Packaging

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  • IFOs required to submit program plans to WDO:
  • performance targets
  • operational standards
  • financial information
  • Self-determined benchmarks became performance

requirements

  • Producers required to pay into IFOs unless they received

approval of their own independent program or model (if they chose to submit)

  • IFOs held liability and risk of non-performance or non-

compliance on behalf of producers

  • Regulation had no consequences or penalties for non-

compliance or non-performance

  • Government, WDO, affected stakeholders, or producers had

line of sight into data or information gathered to inform performance

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EPR for Printed Paper and Packaging

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  • 245 municipal programs submitted data to RPRA
  • total population: 13,729,001
  • total household count: 5,547,000.

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2017 Ontario Performance

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Waste Diversion Rate: 2012-2017

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Residential Diversion by Source (tonnes), 2017

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Marketed Blue Box Tonnes, 2012-2017

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Total Blue Box Revenue and Costs by Category, 2017

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New World Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Act (RRCEA), 2016

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  • Transformational waste diversion framework to support

Ontario’s vision: a circular economy.

  • Waste-Free Ontario Act, 2016, Omnibus Legislation:
  • Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act
  • Sets overarching provincial direction and establish a

new producer responsibility regime.

  • Waste Diversion Transition Act
  • Replaces Waste Diversion Act, which ensures

smooth transition to the individual producer responsibility regime.

Resource Recovery Circular Economy Act

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Regulation to support effective, fair, and open transition from current collective system (IFO) to individual producer responsibility (IPR) model Two Pivotal Changes 1. Assigns liability to producer and allows for flexibility of management of that liability

  • Direct engagement/education of producers themselves
  • Incent innovation in environmental design of the package

and/or the collection and recycling systems

  • Avoid cost cross-subsidization between material types
  • 2. Establishes Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority

(RPRA): oversight agency focused on compliance

  • All obligated producers are complying
  • Ensures all regulatory requirements are met
  • Collects and audits data to ensure compliance
  • Monitors compliance to Competition and Consumer

Protection Act

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Resource Recovery Circular Economy Act

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Intended Outcomes

  • High environmental performance:
  • Collection/recovery on a material specific basis: paper, plastics,

glass, metals

  • Accessibility: total provincial coverage
  • Clear hierarchy of waste reduction and resource recovery

that pushes for highest and best use of materials and resources

  • Focused and dedicated oversight to level the playing field

amongst producers – free riders, non-compliance

  • Strictly enforced and audited performance targets and

standards

  • Full transparency and accountability of any/all consumer

fees

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Resource Recovery Circular Economy Act

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  • Individual producers must register and provide sales to RPRA
  • Each producer assigned a registration fee that covers RPRA

cost

  • Producers ‘declare’ at registration how they manage obligations (within

collective or other manner)

  • Freedom for producers join collective (agent) or manage their
  • wn obligation
  • Could be several collectives competing for producer members for one

material

  • New performance measures;’ collection coverage, recycling

standards

  • Reporting and auditing: incumbent on producer to verify

performance

  • RPRA oversight and enforcement:
  • Ensures obligated producers are compliant
  • Monitors performance closely
  • Has auditing requirements
  • Has ability to assign penalties and fines

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Implementation Differences of IPR

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Wind-down of monopolies established under WDA

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Timelines

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  • June 7, 2019: Ontario Minister of Environment, Conservation, and Parks

assigns Special Advisor on Recycling and Plastic Waste

  • June / July : Special Advisor Consultations:
  • August 6: Special Advisor submits report
  • August 15: Minister directs Stewardship Ontario to begin wind-up planning
  • June 30, 2020: Deadline for SO to submit wind-up plan to RPRA
  • December 31, 2020: RPRA approval deadline
  • January 1, 2023: first communities transition
  • December 31, 2025: producer responsibility framework fully implemented
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Special Advisor’s Special Report

Standardization

  • It should be easier to understand what’s recyclable and what’s not.
  • A common collection system should have a standard list of

materials. Determining eligible sources for Blue Box materials

  • Ontarians generally associate blue boxes with curbside or depot

collection, however most communities includes multi-residential buildings, some businesses, and parks and other public spaces.

  • Transition must consider whether and when it makes sense for

producers to be responsible for Blue Box services beyond curbside

  • r depot collection.

Setting effective diversion targets

  • Regulated and enforceable targets are necessary to set a level

playing-field and ensure that the Blue Box system strives to achieve meaningful environmental outcomes.

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Special Advisor’s Special Report

Promoting increased diversion from disposal (landfill and EFW)

  • What goes in the Blue Box should be reused or recycled – and not

go to landfill.

  • Producer-run blue box system must motivate producers to

maximize reuse and recycling, while leaving room for innovative ways to divert emerging and problematic materials from landfill. Thinking bigger than the Blue Box

  • The transition is an opportunity for additional actions to increase

waste diversion, reduce litter, and build a recycling economy in Ontario.

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Jo-Anne St.Godard Executive Director 416.657.2797 ext. 3 joanne@rco.on.ca RCO.on.ca RCO.on.ca/Membership

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