The direction within the…

The direction within the HWIN.ca website states; “Tonnage fee - $30 per tonne for hazardous non-recycled waste only”. This would imply that there is a tonnage fee exemption for hazardous recyclable wastes. However, HWIN is set up to only exempt the fee if the waste is shipped directly from the generator to HWIN “Tonnage Fee Exempt Recycling Facilities”. Most waste management operations in Ontario collect hazardous waste from generators within an area and ship it to a local waste transfer facility. The waste manifest is terminated, and the waste is temporarily stored on site in it’s original container or bulked. Once a sufficient quantity of a certain waste stream is accumulated, a new manifest is created to ship the waste to the next permitted location – which could be the final recycling or disposal location or an intermediate transfer facility. The waste is eventually shipped to a location where it is recycled or disposed. To encourage recycling, the new system needs to track the waste from the original location to the final recycling location. This could be accomplished by cross-referencing manifests and quantities of specific waste stream, listed on the manifests, sent for recycling. The final receiver can then acknowledge if the waste was recycled or disposed, the generator would be benefit by not being charged a disposal fee when the waste is recycled.

Erica Carabott
Senior Environmental Compliance Manager
Clean Harbors Canada, Inc.
519.864.3890
carabott.erica@cleanharbors.com