No Waste Recycling Services Ltd. - Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

Instrument type: Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

ERO number
025-0762
Ministry reference number
6920-DFSJJ6
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
July 8, 2025 - August 22, 2025 (45 days) Closed
Last updated

This consultation was open from:
July 8, 2025
to August 22, 2025

Decision summary

The Director has revoked Environmental Compliance Approval No. 1171-9L8L2R.

Location details

Site address

355 Riverbend Drive
Kitchener , ON
Canada

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Proponent(s)

No Waste Recycling Services Ltd.
355 Riverbend Drive
Kitchener, ON
N2B 2G1
Canada

Decision details

The Director has exercised his powers under subsection 20.7 (2) and 20.13 of the Environmental Protection Act to revoke Environmental Compliance Approval No. 1171-9L8L2R.

The Director’s decision is based on the seriousness and frequency of non-compliance at the site over a period of almost 10 years demonstrated through:

  • proactive inspections at the site
  • numerous correspondence with No Waste Recycling Services Ltd.
  • inspections that confirmed serious and repeated violations of conditions of approvals, Provincial Officer’s Orders, Director’s Orders and court orders, and
  • two related convictions for No Waste Recycling Services Ltd. and its directors since 2017 with fines totaling approximately $42,000 (plus victim surcharges)

Comments received

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Effects of consultation

The ministry did not receive any comments from the public for consideration on the proposal to revoke Environmental Compliance Approval No. 1171-9L8L2R.

Supporting materials

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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 September 11, 2025 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)

No Waste Recycling Services Ltd.
355 Riverbend Drive
Kitchener, ON
N2B 2G1
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
025-0762
Ministry reference number
6920-DFSJJ6

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
025-0762
Ministry reference number
6920-DFSJJ6
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Proposal posted

Comment period

July 8, 2025 - August 22, 2025 (45 days)

Proposal details

On February 20, 2015, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks issued Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) No. 1171-9L8L2R to No Waste Recycling Services Ltd. for a 0.98-hectare Waste Disposal Site (transfer) located at 355 Riverbend Drive in Kitchener, Ontario, to be used for the transfer of non-hazardous, solid waste limited to construction and demolition waste.

The ECA was amended twice, on July 5, 2018, and on April 20, 2022, to address financial assurance re-evaluations. The director is now proposing to revoke ECA No.1171-9L8L2R on the basis of:

  • the seriousness and frequency of non-compliance at the site over a period of almost ten years demonstrated through:
    • proactive inspections at the site
    • numerous correspondence with No Waste Recycling Services Ltd.
    • inspections that confirmed serious and repeated violations of conditions of approvals, Provincial Officer’s Orders, Director’s Orders and court orders, and
    • two related convictions for No Waste Recycling Services Ltd. and its directors since 2017 with fines totaling approximately $42,000 (plus victim surcharges)

Supporting materials

View materials in person

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 July 8, 2025
to August 22, 2025

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