Ontario Government finalizes amendments to Tires and other producer responsibility regulations
The Government of Ontario has finalized amendments to the following regulations under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016 (RRCEA):
The finalized amendments include:
Tires Regulation
- Increasing the management requirement from 65% to 80%, which applies to the 2026 performance year and each year after.
- Starting in 2027, increasing the number of required tire collection sites from roughly 4,300 sites to roughly 6,500 sites. 220 (10%) of the additional 2,200 sites must be in Northern Ontario.
- Starting in 2027, moving the deadline for PROs to report their tire collection networks to the beginning of each year and adding conditions that limit when collection network sites may be changed during the year.
- Adding rules to provide clarity for PROs that choose to share tire collection sites or trade performance credits to meet targets on behalf of their producer clients.
All producer responsibility regulations
- Adding a requirement for PROs to report financial information to RPRA each year, such as the cost of collecting and managing materials, which will be used to calculate avoided financial costs when determining administrative penalties.
- PROs will have to submit a one-time interim report in December 2026 with financial data from 2023-2025.
- Starting in 2027, PROs must provide ongoing financial information as part of annual reporting.
Administrative Penalties Regulation
- Effective immediately, removing the $1 million cap on administrative penalty orders for contraventions of all five producer responsibility regulations.
The amendments were finalized following a public consultation that ran from April 2 to May 2, 2026.
For further information about the amendments, read the decision notice on the Environmental Registry of Ontario.
Next steps
RPRA will provide detailed guidance in the near future to support registrants in understanding how the amendments may impact them.