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Please follow the steps below
to determine if your company is obligated under the
Waste Diversion Act (2002) and to discharge
any potential obligations it may have under this law.
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Additional guidance is available at Info For
Stewards.
Are You a Steward?
The Waste
Diversion Act requires companies that are designated
as "Stewards" of residential "Blue
Box Waste" to share in funding 50% of the net
cost of Ontario municipal Blue Box programs. The
questions below will help you determine if your
company is likely to be a steward.
1. Is your company resident
in Ontario?
Your company is considered
resident in Ontario if you meet at least one condition
in (a) and one condition in (b)
a) the company has a permanent
establishment in Ontario including a:
AND/
b) the company has employees or agents
For further definition of residency
in Ontario please review Appendix A of 2010
Rules.
Companies not resident in Ontario
are not obligated under the WDA but may choose to
volunteer to become
a steward. Please read the Voluntary Steward
Agreement carefully before submitting an application
to become a Voluntary Steward. Stewardship Ontario
reserves the right to reject Voluntary Steward Agreements.
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2. Are you/is your company a "Brand
Owner," "First Importer," or
"Franchisor" (which is a brand
owner) of one or more products sold in Ontario with
packaging, or that issues, sells and/or distributes
printed material that is managed in the Ontario
residential waste stream.
“Brand Owner”
and/or “Franchisor” is a company/organization
or person that is a registered trademark holder
or licensee of a trademark (brand); or a company
or person that owns or is the licensee of intellectual
property rights of a brand of printed material or
product. (If you or your company’s brand or
trade mark is on any product or product packaging
and/or printed matter, then you or your company
is the brand owner of that product and packaging
or printed matter).
“First importer”
is a company or person that imports products into
the province where the brand owner(s) is/are not
resident in Ontario. This might be products that
are imported from other Canadian provinces or from
other countries.
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3. Do your products generate Designated
Blue Box Waste?
Designated Blue Box Waste
(DBBW) is defined as “Packaging and/or Printed
Material consisting of one of or a combination of
glass, metal, paper, plastic, or textiles”
and that is potentially managed in the Ontario Residential
waste system.
4. Were your company’s gross
Ontario sales for any obligation year beginning with 2002 and continuing to the current year, greater than $2 million? Or
is your company a non-profit entity?
Gross Ontario sales is the combined gross
revenues from the sale of all products and services
in Ontario of your company and all its affiliates
(include all commercial and retail sales streams).
Non-profit entities include municipalities,
provincial agencies, colleges, and universities
If you answered yes to each question,
your company is obligated to file a Steward’s
Report with Stewardship Ontario. Please continue
to the next step.
If you answered NO to any question,
you are not obligated to file a Steward's Report
under the BBPP, however we recommend that you register
your company and receive an exemption from the program
by email.
For more, view the Obligation
Flow chart.
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Choose
a Primary Contact
Now that you have determined you are obligated under
the WDA, you will need to designate an individual
that will be responsible for fulfilling your obligations.
A “primary contact”
is the individual who will co-ordinate this process
for your company, who Stewardship Ontario will contact
as necessary and to whom we will provide program
information updates. The role and purpose of the
primary contact is to:
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Register your Company
with Stewardship Ontario
Obligated Brand Owners, First Importers and Franchisors
doing business in Ontario are required to register
with Stewardship Ontario. You will need:
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company information (address,
main telephone number, etc);
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primary contact information
(title, email, address telephone number, etc);
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gross Ontario Sales figures
for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (see definition
as outlined above in question 4 under Are you
a Steward?);
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information about whether
your company had DBBW in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (as per definition outlined above in question
3: Are you a Steward?).
Obligated stewards or companies wanting to register
may click
here. Once registered obligated stewards will
receive an email containing a key information they need to log on to the Steward Reporting system.
Companies that declare that they
are not obligated to file a Steward’s Report
will receive an email to this effect.
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Stewardship Ontario may contact
you to verify these declarations.
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If your company has already
registered you will not be able to register a
second time. Please contact Stewardship Ontario’s
Customer Service Group at (888) 288-3360 for further
information.
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Stewardship Ontario will only
send log on information
to the primary contact's email address provided.
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Collect your Data for
your Steward's Report
Obligated Companies are required to file a Steward’s
Report for every year for which they are obligated.
Before you start, you will need to understand four
key concepts.
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Gross Ontario Sales (GOS):
the combined gross revenues from the sale of products
and services in Ontario of your company and all
its affiliates. To be obligated, these must be
greater than $ 2 million for a specified data
year. Organizations are to include the sales of
all products and services from all divisions and
affiliates in Ontario.
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Designated Blue Box Waste
(DBBW): includes any one of or a combination
of glass, metal, paper, plastic, or textiles and
that were potentially disposed of in the Ontario
Residential waste system. If your company sold/distributed
products with Packaging and/or Printed Material
consisting of DBBW for a specified data year,
the company is obligated.
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Data Year: is the
calendar year (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 or 2009) for which
stewards collect Packaging and Printed Material
data for use in calculating their obligation under
the WDA.
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Obligation Year:
is the calendar year in which stewards are obligated
to produce Steward’s Reports and potentially
pay fees to Stewardship Ontario. Obligation years
to date include:
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2003 & 2004 obligation
years
Companies with gross Ontario Sales greater
than $2 million and with DBBW in 2002 collect
and file Steward’s Reports with 2002
data for these obligation years. (Please note,
the 2002 data only needs to be filed once;
when the 2003 Steward's Report is submitted
the 2004 Steward's Report will automatically
be generated.)
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2005 obligation year
Companies with gross Ontario Sales greater
than $2 million and with DBBW in 2003 collect
and file Steward's Reports with 2003 data
for this obligation year.
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2006 obligation year
Companies with gross Ontario Sales greater
than $2 million and with DBBW in 2004 collect
and file Steward's Reports with 2004 data
for this obligation year.
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2007 obligation year
Companies with gross Ontario Sales greater
than $2 million and with DBBW in 2006 collect
and file Steward's Reports with 2006 data
for this obligation year.
- 2008 obligation year
Companies with gross Ontario Sales greater
than $2 million and with DBBW in 2007 collect
and file Steward's Reports with 2007 data
for this obligation year.
- 2009 obligation year
Companies with gross Ontario Sales greater than $2 million and with DBBW in 2008 collect and file Steward's Reports with 2008 data for this obligation year.
- 2010 obligation year
Companies with gross Ontario Sales greater than $2 million and with DBBW in 2009 collect and file Steward's Reports with 2009 data for this obligation year.
Please note due to a program modification for 2007, stewards will never be required to
collect and submit 2005 data to Stewardship Ontario.
Stewards are required to collect and report the
annual weight of their obligated packaging and printed
material in kilograms by material.
Note: stewards with outstanding Steward’s
Reports are required to file them in chronological
order starting from 2003 to 2010.
Need assistance calculating your obligation?
A list of consultants
is available to help stewards comply with their
obligations. Disclaimer: Stewardship Ontario
does not endorse any or all consultants listed.
Reporting Calculators
Stewardship Ontario has authorized the use of several
reporting calculators
for specific sectors, for a defined lists of products.
If you are unable to obtain actual packaging data
for your company’s DBBW, there may be an approved
reporting calculator available that you may use
estimate the weight of materials for which your
company is obligated. Note: calculators may only
be used as approved by Stewardship Ontario. To be
approved for a calculator, please see Apply
to Use a Calculator.
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File/Submit
your Steward’s Report
Entering
Once you have collected all your Packaging and Printed
Material weight data, you will enter the information
on Stewardship Ontario’s Steward
Reporting System. You will need
your log on information to access
the system. If you do not have this please
contact Customer Service at (888) 288-3360 and we
will email it to the primary contact on file.
Stewards are now required to include all brand
names, and affiliated companies, included in their
steward's report.
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Fee Calculations
The reporting system automatically calculates
how much each obligated steward is required to pay,
based on the amount of each DBWW material that they
used in Packaging or Printed Materials during the
"data" year.
You can view tables of the fee
rates that are applied to the various material
categories. These tables are also shown in the "Rules"
posted for each obligation year.
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Reporting and Payment Timelines
Reporting and Payment deadlines for the all obligation years are 93 days from each steward’s date of notification for each obligation year. Please view the Rules to determine when Payment of fees was required for previous obligation year.
If you have any questions, please
contact Customer Service at 1-888-288-3360 or
customerservice@stewardshipontario.ca.
NOTE: Stewards that
do not comply within 93 days of notification by
submitting and making their first payment,
may be subject to enforcement action under the
WDA.
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Penalties
and Interest
Companies obligated under the Waste Diversion
Act, 2002 that fail to pay fees as set out
in the Reporting and Payment Schedule will be subject
to penalties and interest
charges. For more information, please see the penalties and interests section shown in the Rules of each obligation year.
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