Blue Box Regulations affecting Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional properties effective January 1, 2025

Monday November 04, 2024

Attention Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional properties: We are transitioning to the new Blue Box Regulation on January 1, 2025.

• According to the Blue Box Regulation, Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional properties, municipal buildings, daycares, places of worship, and not-for-profit organizations are not eligible to receive curbside recycling services and will need to make private arrangements for the disposal of their recycling.
• We understand this is a significant change for Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional properties that are currently actively participating in the curbside recycling program.
• Effective January 1, 2025 Non-Eligible Sources that are not a part of the Downtown Business Improvement Area will no longer receive curbside recycling services.

What’s happening to Ontario’s Blue Box Program?

• In 2021, the Ontario government passed a new regulation that shifts the financial and operational responsibility of blue box recycling programs to producers: those that produce and supply blue box materials to residents.
• Transition to extended producer responsibility will take place between 2023 and 2025, as a result, Brockville’s blue box recycling program will be managed by Circular Materials, who is the administrator of the common collection system and a not-for-profit organization that is committed to building an efficient and effective recycling system in Ontario.

Visit the Blue Box Transition section of our Garbage and Recycling page for more information.