2025 Municipal Funding Allocation Model finalized 

RPRA has finalized the Municipal Funding Allocation Model (MFAM) for 2025. The MFAM is used to distribute funding from stewards to municipalities, First Nation communities, and recycling associations that operate programs under Stewardship Ontario’s Blue Box Program Plan. The allocated municipal share of the 2025 Blue Box Steward Funding Obligation is $28.6 million.

Municipalities can find their 2025/26 payments on the Blue Box Program page.

How will this impact programs transitioning to the new producer responsibility program under the Blue Box Regulation?

For the final tranche of programs transitioning from the legacy Blue Box program to the new producer responsibility program under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016 (RRCEA) throughout 2025, the reported net cost of a program is calculated by using the number of days the program will be active in 2025, divided by the total number of days in the year.

Payment installments have also been adjusted for programs that are transitioning. Municipalities will receive checks up to the date they transition, with a final installment being paid out after the transition date.

Adjustments to the number of payment installments will not lower the amount of funding. For example, a program transitioning on July 1, 2025, will have a payout for the total net cost of operating its Blue Box program for 181 days and receive two installments, in June 2025 and September 2025.