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Recycling in Ontario

Learn more about Ontario’s enhanced recycling system.

Find your local recycling information

Type your community name to find more information about your recycling program. If your community is not listed, please refer to your community’s website for recycling information.

Your recycling program

Circular Materials, Ryse Solutions, H2 Compliance and EnvironFocus Incorporated are the producer responsibility organizations that are operating Ontario’s new common collection system.

In June 2021, the Province of Ontario released the Blue Box Regulation to shift the financial and operational responsibility of recycling from municipalities to the organizations that produce packaging, paper and packaging–like products.

Between July 2023 and December 2025, the responsibility for Ontario’s Blue Box program will transition to producers. Learn more here.

Circular Materials is the producer responsibility organization that is responsible for implementing and managing the new extended producer responsibility recycling system in Ontario.

 

 

Why Recycle?

By recycling, you make a difference. 

Your recyclables – once collected, sorted and processed – can be used again and again, coming back into your home as another product or packaging! 

By recycling, you help protect our environment and conserve our planet’s natural resources. 

Recycling in action

Latest news

July 3, 2024

Toronto Residents Can Now Recycle Hot and Cold Paper Beverage Cups at Home

Circular Materials is pleased to announce that, beginning July 3, 2024, Toronto residents can recycle both hot and cold paper-based and plastic-lined beverage cups at home and other eligible locations.

March 26, 2024

Ontario’s Transition to EPR Nears One-year Milestone

Building on achievements in 2023, July 1, 2024, will mark the one-year milestone since Circular Materials, a national not-for-profit producer-led organization, kick-started Ontario’s transition to extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging and paper material – the first step towards enhanced recycling across the province. This underscores Circular Materials’ commitment to technological advancements and strategic innovation that will help to enhance and harmonize recycling across the province.

September 14, 2023

National Integration for Blue Box in Canada

We are pleased to share an update on a nationally integrated approach that is being developed to support Canada’s transition to extended producer responsibility (EPR).