Read the 2021 Datacall Report

The 2021 Datacall Report, which summarizes information generated by the 246 programs participating in the Blue Box Program in 2021 and highlights residential waste management trends, is now available on RPRA’s website. Read the report.

Each year, municipalities, recycling associations and First Nation communities in Ontario report on their residential waste diversion programs to RPRA through the Datacall, which operates on a two-year lag. The Datacall is used to determine the overall cost of the program and to assess the share of costs between participating communities and those companies selling Blue Box materials into the Ontario economy.

The 2021 Datacall Report is the last year communities transitioning out of the legacy program to the new extended producer responsibility regulatory framework in 2023 will be reporting into the Datacall. Communities continuing to participate in the legacy program will transition in two additional tranches in 2024 and 2025. Those communities will similarly cease to report into the Datacall as they exit the current legacy program.

Under the new framework outlined in the Blue Box Regulation issued under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016, producers of Blue Box materials will become fully financially responsible and accountable for the Blue Box Program. This will negate the need to determine system costs and assess the share of costs between communities and businesses. As such, the 2021 Datacall Report will be the final written report published. Datacall statistics will continue to be published for the 2022 and 2023 Datacall years for remaining programs.