TORONTO — Following extensive consultations, the Ontario government is improving blue box recycling by expanding service to more communities, standardizing the list of materials that can be recycled ...

On Jan. 1, 2026, Ontario will complete its three-year transition to extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging and paper products. Simultaneously, the province will introduce an enhanced ...

Ontario plans to update regulations for its Blue Box recycling program. According to a statement on the Ontario government’s website, the proposed regulations include expanding the items that can be ...

Though it dropped with little notice in the wider world, plunked down with scant fanfare in a late COVID spring, it was, nonetheless, a massive moment for many Ontario companies — not to mention ...

TORONTO — Ontario is kicking off Waste Reduction Week by unveiling regulations to improve the blue box program. The enhancements include expanding the items that can be recycled and making producers ...

Decades after they first landed on household curbsides in Ontario, recycling’s blue boxes could be in for a major shakeup that would leave waste producers, not municipalities, holding the bag for the ...