William Day Construction Limited - Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

Instrument type: Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

ERO number
026-0298
Ministry reference number
4219-DRDQLN
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
March 27, 2026 - May 11, 2026 (45 days) Closed
Last updated

This consultation was open from:
March 27, 2026
to May 11, 2026

Decision summary

An amended waste environmental compliance approval was issued to William Day Construction Limited to permit an increase the maximum quantity of used tires at the site.

Location details

Site address

2500 Elm Street
Greater Sudbury, ON
Canada

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Proponent(s)

William Day Construction Limited
2500 Elm Street
Greater Sudbury, ON
P0M 1N0
Canada

Decision details

The Client provides services to northern Ontario for the collection, processing and storage of used tires from a variety of sources including municipal landfill sites, mines, and tire stores.

The collection of tires provides necessary services to smaller northern municipalities and the requirements of the Extended Producer Responsibility.

Once collected, tires are offloaded, sorted, and pre-processed as required before being reloaded and shipped to various recycling plants.

The existing limit of 5,000 tires is insufficient to meet the volume of tires that require processing within the province and northern Ontario.

Increasing the storage capacity of the facility was supported and assessed on the basis that the facility currently undertakes the collection and transfer of tires to recycling facilities, the site is sufficiently large enough to to store the increase in tire volumes, while adhering to the requirements of the Fire Code.

Comments received

Through the registry

7

By email

7

By mail

0
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Effects of consultation

Public comments were reviewed and considered as part of the decision-making process. While the feedback provided valuable perspectives and helped inform the overall assessment, it did not identify issues that warranted changes to the proposed approach for the issuance of the environmental compliance approval or alter the final decision. The decision was based on the full consideration of applicable technical, policy, legislative, and environmental factors.

Supporting materials

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Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number

How to Appeal

This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from June 4, 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)

William Day Construction Limited
2500 Elm Street
Greater Sudbury, ON
P0M 1N0
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
026-0298
Ministry reference number
4219-DRDQLN

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
026-0298
Ministry reference number
4219-DRDQLN
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Proposal posted

Comment period

March 27, 2026 - May 11, 2026 (45 days)

Proposal details

This proposal is to amend Environmental Compliance Approval (waste disposal site) No. A770099 issued to William Day Construction Limited for used tire transfer and processing site located in the City of Greater Sudbury.

The waste transfer and processing site has a total area of 1.79 hectares, and prepares used tires to be delivered to recycling facilities. The service area is Northern Ontario. The facility currently operates 12 hours per day, five to seven days per week with maximum tires receiving limits of 160 tonnes per day, 14 000 tonnes per year and 5000 tires on-site storage.

The amendment includes:

  • the increase the maximum on-site storage to 100,000 tires
  • the approval of outdoor activities such as cutting large tires with a hydraulic shear

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 Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number

Comment

Commenting is now closed.

This consultation was open from March 27, 2026
to May 11, 2026

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