Blue Box Fee Calculations & Rate Tables Archive

Each Designated Blue Box Waste material is associated with an annualized fee rate. (See Fee Setting Methodology) For each obligation year, fee rates are carefully calculated, consulted upon, approved by Stewardship Ontario’s Board of Directors and then by Waste Diversion Ontario's Board of Directors. Once approved, they are programmed into the Steward Reporting System. (See Fee Calculation Tables).

This system automatically calculates how much each obligated steward is required to pay, based on the amount of each designated material that they used in packaging or printed material during the "data" year.

2010 marks the eighth “obligation year” for the program. An obligation year is a calendar year for which stewards are or were required to register, file a Steward’s Report and applicable fees. The first obligation year for this program was 2003.

Most obligated stewards were required to file Steward’s Reports during the first seven obligation years (i.e. 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and/or 2009). Stewards are now required to file Steward’s Reports as follows:

Please note: The 2003 and 2004 obligation years are submitted as one Steward’s Report using the 2002 data year. In addition, the 2007 Rules require stewards to submit data reflecting their 2006 sales and DBBW to Stewardship Ontario in order to calculate their fees for 2007. Stewards will NEVER be required to collect and submit 2005 data to Stewardship Ontario.

Fee Calculation Tables

BB fee calculation model - 2012 coming soon

BB fee calculation model - 2011
     Consideration - Disaggregation of Polycoat Containers
     Consideration - Unidentifiable Stewards in Other Printed Paper Category

BB fee calculation model – 2010

BB fee calculation model – 2009

BB fee calculation model – 2008

BB fee calculation model – 2007

BB fee calculation model – 2006

BB fee calculation model – 2003-2005