This consultation was open from:
December 18, 2024
to February 1, 2025
Decision summary
The ministry issued an Environmental Compliance Approval for a waste disposal site as described in this notice.
Location details
Site address
701 Brook Road North, Unit 8
Cobourg,
ON
Canada
Site location map
The location pin reflects the approximate area where environmental activity is taking place.
View this location on a map opens link in a new windowProponent(s)
Central Park Recycling Inc.
100 Granton Drive
Unit 1
Richmond Hill,
ON
L4B 1H7
Canada
Decision details
An amended Environmental Compliance Approval was issued for a 0.19 hectares Waste Disposal Site to be used for:
- The collection, sorting, repackaging (consolidation), and transfer of all chemistries, grades, and configurations of intact waste batteries, as defined by Regulation 347; and
- The receipt, temporary storage and transfer of Municipal Hazardous and Special Waste (MHSW).
In addition, Nickel Cadmium Wet Cell (UN 2795) batteries will be screened, set aside, and disassembled into their component parts.
The changes proposed to existing operations were:
- Increasing the number of intact waste batteries to be received on-site from 100 tonnes/day to 120 tonnes/day;
- Increasing the amount of battery waste stored on-site from 300 tonnes to 1100 tonnes; and
- Adding Municipal Hazardous and Special Waste (MHSW) storage and transfer to site operations, at 1,300 tonnes of MHSW received/year, 20 tonnes received/day, and 100 tonnes stored on-site at any given time.
The Approval conditions address waste storage, processing and handling procedures, spills and emergency response and reporting procedures, including the implementation of a fire safety plan in concurrence with the local fire department. In addition, the following are reviewed and address through Approval conditions: signage and site security, inspection of incoming waste and refusal, nuisance control, site inspection, worker training, complaints, record keeping, reporting, site closure.
Effects of consultation
No comments were received.
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135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
How to Appeal
This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from February 5, 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:
- prepare your application
- provide notice to the minister
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- 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:
- 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?
- 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)
Central Park Recycling Inc.
100 Granton Drive
Unit 1
Richmond Hill,
ON
L4B 1H7
Canada
Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
Include the following:
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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135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Original proposal
Proposal details
This proposal is for an amendment to Environmental Compliance Approval (waste disposal site) No. 3952-BAUPEG for the use and operation of an existing private waste transfer and waste processing facility, presently used for the processing and transfer of intact waste batteries, taking place inside a 1,900 square metres facility, located within a 11,500 square metres building at at 701 Brook Road North, Unit 8 in the Town of Cobourg, Ontario.
Intact waste batteries will continue to be received, sorted, and repacked and consolidated for shipment at the site. In addition, Nickel Cadmium Wet Cell batteries will continue to be screened, set aside, and disassembled into their component parts for other users.
Under this application, it is proposed that site operations include the storage and transfer of Municipal Hazardous or Special Wastes. The Municipal Hazardous or Special Wastes to be received will not be processed at the site; these materials will be transferred to offsite recycling facilities.
The total maximum amount of waste received at the site will be 120 tonnes per day, with a proposed maximum storage capacity increase to 1,200 tonnes at any one time. The site will service Canada and the United States of America, and will be operated 24 hours a day, Monday to Sunday. Shipping and receiving hours for the site will be from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm, Monday to Friday.
Supporting materials
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Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.
135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from December 18, 2024
to February 1, 2025
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135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
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M4V 1P5
Canada
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