Residents of Hamilton can now toss used toothpaste tubes and black plastic containers into their blue recycling bins, following Ontario’s new “unified material list” that launched on Thursday.
“Ontario residents will be able to recycle the same and even more materials at home no matter where they live across Ontario,” said Allen Langdon, chief executive officer of Circular Materials, the organization chosen by the Ontario government to oversee the province’s recycling system, in an email to CBC Hamilton on Tuesday.
“This new unified material list in Ontario will make it easier for residents to recycle, improving recovery rates and benefiting both people and the environment.”
You can find the complete list of recyclable items at circularmaterials. ca/recycleontario.
Circular Materials was started by 17 of Canada’s leading food, beverage and consumer products manufacturers, restaurants and retailers, including Coca-Cola Canada, Mc Donald’s and Loblaw Companies Limited, as stated on the company’s website.
In a recent chat with CBC’s Ottawa Morning, Langdon shared that those companies will report annually to Circular Materials on how much packaging “they supply into the marketplace,” then pay fees based on those amounts and types.
“There’s now an incentive to reduce because if they reduce the packaging, they’ll pay [fewer] fees and have [lower costs] for supporting the blue box program,” Langdon said.
Hamilton’s recycling program shifted from being managed by the city to Circular Materials last April. This transition took three years in stages across different parts of the province but was fully completed as of January 1, according to Langdon in his email.
“The unified material list and new materials included are a great example of how extended producer responsibility advances innovation and improves environmental outcomes,” he said.
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