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Doing the right thing costs money. Sadly, reducing and transferring costs to business, where money is everything and the right thing comes second is likely to fail. If Ontario can't do recycling right, who can?
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I want a system that makes it easier and more effective for individuals to recycle by placing greater responsibility on producers. Ontario is beautiful and residents want to keep it that way. Future generations expect us to act responsibility, please do not walk back recycling measures.
Our condominium relies heavily on the subsidy we receive for the recycling program, especially as we must use a private firm for waste removal. I am against the proposed change which will eliminate this program.
July 2, 2025
Marc Peverini
Resource Recovery Policy Branch
40 St. Clair Avenue West, 8th floor
Toronto, ON M4V 1M2
RE: ERO 025-0009 – Proposed Amendments to Ontario Regulation 391/21 (Blue Box Regulation)
Dear Mr. Peverini,
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The City of Richmond Hill's formal comments have been attached in a separate PDF file. Below is a summary of the comments:
ITEM 1: Delay Recovery Targets for Select Material Categories
Richmond Hill Staff Comment:
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The proposal is amazing to help curb the costs of small businesses that could go out of business due to extensive cost of collecting, managing blue box materials.
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ITEM 1: Delay Recovery Targets for Select Material Categories
Proposal: Delay recovery targets for paper, metal, glass, rigid plastic, and beverage containers by 5 years to allow producers more time to plan and make investments for collection and recycling to meet their targets.
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Make polluters pay! As a government, you should be advocating for people and the land you serve, not to businesses that choose profitability over fundamental civic decisions like waste and recycling.
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We are at a critical time in terms of being good environmental stewards of the earth. This is not the time to eliminate programs that discourage and unfairly targets people living in multi-unit dwellings from responsibly managing their waste and recycling.
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I am very concerned by the proposal to walk back important environmental commitments in the EPR program. We are already in a state of crisis - too much plastic, not enough recycling. The proposed changes will take us backwards.
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The City of Toronto (the City) wishes to provide its comments and concerns in response to the Environmental Registry of Ontario’s posting number 025-0009 entitled “Amendments to the Blue Box Regulation” posted on June 4, 2025.
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The subsidy program in place for condo corp complexes (which I am an owner of) to keep recycling costs low for residents is imperative to keeping living affordable in Ontario. Please do not change this, we hope this will stay in place untouched and you will find your funding elsewhere. Thank you
WHEREAS under Ontario Regulation 391/21:Blue Box producers are fully accountable and financially responsible for their products and packaging once they reach their end of life and are disposed of, for 'eligible' sources only;
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What a ridiculous proposal. We need to be reducing waste, increasing ability to recycle and increasing scope of recycling program. What world are we trying to leave for our children. Our household recycles and composts and has for years.
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Do not agree to the stopping of our subsidy.
I feel it is unfair to us since I believe that there is already a fee that our condo is paying for pickup of garbage.
Are other homes in our area paying to have their garbage picked up?
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I do not agree with the amendment that pertains to the removal of expanding the recycling program to multi-residential properties. I manage a resort and 3 shared ownership properties, all of which pay significant property taxes for services such as waste removal.
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July 4, 2025
The Honourable Todd J. McCarthy, MPP
Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks
5th Floor, 777 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M7A 2J3
minister.mecp@ontario.ca
Re: ERO 025-0009 - Amendments to the Blue Box Regulation
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