Ontario’s Blue Box Program Shifts Financial & Operational Responsibility From Municipality to Producers Starting January 1, 2025 in Brockville

NO Changes for Residents as New Contractor Takes Over Recycling!

Brockville – Starting on January 1, 2025, the financial and operational responsibility for Ontario’s Blue Box Program will shift from the City of Brockville to the producers of recycled packaging.

Besides a new contractor, managed by Circular Materials, which is the administrator of the common collection system and a not-for-profit organization committed to building an efficient and effective recycling system in Ontario, there will be NO changes for residents the city says.

Recycling changes only affect industrial, commercial, and institutional properties, municipal buildings, daycares, places of worship, and not-for-profit organizations that are not eligible to receive curbside recycling services.

For more information on the Recycling Collection Requirements, which have not been changed, please visit: https://brockville.com/city-services/solidwaste

To contact for recycling collection questions and inquiries: As of January 1, 2025, please contact Emterra for recycling-related questions: customercareont@emterra.ca 888 597-1541.

As well, Circular Materials has a Brockville-specific page here: https://www.circularmaterials.ca/resident-communities/brockville/

In 2021, the Ontario government passed a new regulation that shifts the financial and operational responsibility of blue box recycling programs to producers: those that produce and supply blue box materials to residents.

The transition to extended producer responsibility will take place between 2023 and 2025.

Visit this website for more information on the Blue Box Regulation: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/r21391