October, 2009

Stewardship Ontario & Continuous Improvement Fund Working to Develop Markets for Plastic Packaging—Looking for Blue Box Plastics
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Building on the success of the glass market development fund, Stewardship Ontario and the Continuous Improvement Fund (CIF) are working to develop and deliver market development assistance for rigid and film plastic packaging. Stewardship Ontario and the CIF have committed $2.4 million and $1.9 million respectively for demonstration projects intended to develop up to 25,300 tonnes per year of new processing capacity for plastics streams one through seven, where bottle grades of PET and HDPE have been removed through MRF processing.

Having selected two plastic processors—EFS Plastics (Elmira) and Entropex (Sarnia)—through an RFP process, the next step is to begin working with municipalities through 2010 to source a supply of plastics captured in the municipal recycling system. Toward that end the CIF has begun a series of monthly conference calls for municipal representatives to discuss the plastics re-processing matters. In addition to this project funding, the Stewardship Ontario Board has committed support to build on this initiative over the coming years.

To view a joint Stewardship Ontario/CIF announcement: Pilot Blue Box Plastics Project

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