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Ontario welcomes an enhanced Blue Box program, making recycling easier and saving communities more than $200 million in costs
Producers now fully fund Ontario's Blue Box recycling, saving municipalities over $200 million while expanding the list of recyclable materials province-wide.
- On January 1, 2026, Ontario completes its three-year transition to extended producer responsibility, celebrated by Circular Materials, common collection system administrator, alongside producers and sector partners.
- The Province's Blue Box regulation shifted recycling costs and operational responsibility to producers, with a three-year onboarding beginning July 1, 2023 to implement the EPR framework.
- A new province-wide material list will standardize accepted recyclables and add hot and cold beverage cups, black plastic containers, and toothpaste and deodorant tubes by January 1, 2026, when 383 communities and 12 First Nations will fully transition to the EPR program.
- Ontario municipalities are collectively saving over $200 million as the Blue Box program is 100% funded by producers, relieving municipal taxpayers of recycling costs.
- Starting in 2026, residents will receive a new recycling app and community webpages for schedules while GFL Environmental provides local collection, with some schedules in Sault unchanged.
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Ontario welcomes an enhanced Blue Box program, making recycling easier and saving communities more than $200 million in costs
Nearly 400 communities have transitioned to a new residential recycling program that makes recycling easier and more efficient across the province – at no...
Ontario launches new province-wide blue box recycling system in 2026
Ontario is launching a province-wide Blue Box recycling system starting January 1, 2026. The updated program allows residents to recycle the same materials at the curb across the province, while adding new items such as chip bags, toothpaste tubes, deodorant sticks, pet food bags, bubble wrap, coffee cup lids, and stand-up resealable pouches. The transition follows an extended producer responsibility framework, which shifts greater responsibilit…
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