Canadian Liquids Processors Limited - Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

Instrument type: Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

ERO number
025-1158
Ministry reference number
4559-DJKH88
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Notice stage
Decision
Decision posted
Comment period
October 21, 2025 - December 5, 2025 (45 days) Closed
Last updated

This consultation was open from:
October 21, 2025
to December 5, 2025

Decision summary

Approval is granted to amend the existing site waste approval by amending condition 6.1 to incorporate regulatory changes made to the blue box recycling program.

Location details

Site address

15 Biggar Avenue
Hamilton, ON
Canada

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Proponent(s)

Canadian Liquids Processors Limited
15 Biggar Avenue
Hamilton, ON
L8L 3Z3
Canada

Decision details

Approval is granted to amend the existing site waste approval by amending condition 6.1 to incorporate regulatory changes made to the blue box recycling program.

There is no increase in the amount of total recyclable materials that are being received each day or increase in the maximum quantity of recyclable materials storage at any one time.

The operating hours will remain the same though receiving and shipping hours are included in the approval to reflect the current site operations.

A submission of a dust, noise and odour management plan to the District Manager, Hamilton District Office, is now required in order to address public and district office concerns.

Comments received

Through the registry

1

By email

0

By mail

0
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Effects of consultation

There was one comment received, a summary of which along with our response is noted below:

Comments: Concerns with noise, odour as operations are closer to the residential neighborhood.

Response: This site has been in operations since 1995 in an industrial area where noise and odour are expected given the nature of the area and operations in an industrial area. The proponent has been applying odour supressing deodorant on an as needed basis, and the local district office confirmed improvement in the odour issues. The site operations may be contributing to the overall noise impact which is occurring because of other industrial operations. That said, a condition is included in the ECA requiring the proponent to submit a dust, noise and odour management plan to the Hamilton District Office for review and approval.

Supporting materials

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Hamilton District Office
Address

119 King Street West
Floor 9
Hamilton, ON
L8P 4Y7
Canada

Office phone number
Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number

How to Appeal

This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from March 27, 2026 to begin the appeal process.

Carefully review the information below to learn more about the appeal process.

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Start the process to appeal

If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.

First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.

If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.

Seek leave to appeal

To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:

  1. prepare your application
  2. provide notice to the minister
  3. mail your application to three parties

1. Prepare your application

You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:

  1. A document that includes:
    • your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
    • the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
    • a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
    • your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
    • the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
    • whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
    • the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
    • the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
    • the outcome you’d like to see
  2. A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
  3. Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered

The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:

  1. is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
  2. could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?

2. Provide your notice

You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.

In your notice, please include a brief description of the:

  • decision that you wish to appeal
  • grounds for granting leave to appeal

You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:

College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON
M7A 2J3

3. Mail your application

You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:

  • appellate body
  • issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
  • proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)

Issuing authority
Mohsen Keyvani
Manager

Environmental Assessment and Permissions Branch
135 St Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

416-432-7253

Proponent(s)

Canadian Liquids Processors Limited
15 Biggar Avenue
Hamilton, ON
L8L 3Z3
Canada


Appellate body

Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca

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Include the following:

ERO number
025-1158
Ministry reference number
4559-DJKH88

This is not legal advice. Please refer to the Environmental Bill of Rights for exact legal requirements. Consult a lawyer if you need help with the appeal process.

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Original proposal

ERO number
025-1158
Ministry reference number
4559-DJKH88
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Proposal posted

Comment period

October 21, 2025 - December 5, 2025 (45 days)

Proposal details

This application for an amendment is made to the existing Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA number A650041), issued to Canadian Liquid Processors Ltd. (CLP) for the use and operation of a facility that processes recyclable post-consumer recyclable materials as defined in O. Reg 101 (Blue Box Materials), such as metal and plastic containers, packaging materials and paper fibre materials, glass containers, etc.

The CLP facility in Hamilton operates under an Environmental Compliance Approval issued by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation & Parks (MECP) has a total facility area of 3.62 hectares, that has been in operations for waste management activities for over 30 years involving with the processing and transfer of solid non-hazardous recyclable waste materials.

The CLP facility is currently approved to process recyclable materials up to 3,750 cubic metres of glass and other source-separated recyclable materials per day, and up to 250 cubic metres per day of other liquid wastes from food processing/preparation operations.

This application seeks to receive for subsequent transfer each day to other recycling facilities recyclable materials collected from the City of Hamilton. The recyclable materials will be received and unloaded from collection vehicles within a building structure measuring approximately 55 metres x 18.5 metres = 1,000 square metres. The building structure has a sloped roof structure that is 7.3 metres high at the north and 8.8 at the south. It is expected that the facility will receive 150 to 200 metric tonnes of recyclable materials each day with a maximum amount of recyclables not to exceed 300 metric tonnes on any given day.

This application for amendment to the ECA will not increase the amount of total recyclable materials that are being received each day or increase the maximum quantity of recyclable materials in storage at any one time. The processing and transfer of municipal recyclable materials for this application will operate from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Other waste processing operations are currently operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and serves Canada & the United States of America.

CLP is not seeking any increase in allowable storage limit of waste at the facility. Specifically, it is proposed that the clause 6.1 of ECA A650041 should read "The Company shall not receive more than three thousand seven hundred and fifty cubic metres of recyclable material per day".

Supporting materials

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Some supporting materials may not be available online. If this is the case, you can request to view the materials in person.

Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.

Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number

Comment

Commenting is now closed.

This consultation was open from October 21, 2025
to December 5, 2025

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