Ontario municipalities will soon no longer have to pay to maintain a blue box recycling program.
The responsibility is being handed down to producers to pay.
Andrea Khanjin, the Minister of Environment’s Parliamentary Assistant, says the move will be phased-in over time, beginning in 2023.
Khanjin says “The municipalities might have contracts that they had signed onto for recycling delivery. So it’s now just re-thinking how those work to the benefit of Ontarians when they go to their blue bin, so that’s not disrupted and obviously for the budgeting of that municipality.”
She says municipalities have been asking for this for quite some time, noting it will save them a combined $125-$175-million per year.
Khanjin notes the move is also aimed at increasing recycling and adding more items to the blue boxes currently not collected at curbside.
