If you are a processor under the HSP Regulation, you are required to register with RPRA.

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HSP processors, also commonly referred to as a service provider, were required to register with RPRA by August 31, 2021. Producers, or PROs acting on their behalf, can only rely on service providers who are registered with RPRA.

Recycling Efficiency Rate Reporting for processors of Categories A, B and C

Processors of categories A, B and C are required to submit an annual report that contains a verified recycling efficiency rate (RER) of each material at each of the processor’s facilities. The RER must be verified in accordance with the HSP Verification and Audit Registry Procedure.

As of January 1, 2023, producers or PROs on their behalf, can rely on HSP processors listed on RPRA’s website to meet their management requirements. The list will be updated as required. View the list of HSP processors here.

If you are an HSP processor and are not listed, contact the Compliance Team at registry@rpra.ca or 1-833-600-0530.

2024 RER Reporting Requirements

RPRA will not require processors of HSP to submit an RER verification report in 2024. However, processors are still required to submit their annual performance report.

RPRA is currently working with Dillon Consulting to develop a new HSP RER Calculation and Verification Procedure. The decision to not require an RER report in 2024 is a result of feedback received during our consultation and additional work needed to develop and implement the RER Calculation and Verification Procedures.

Annual Performance Report

Beginning in 2023, processors are required to submit a separate annual performance report for each material they process (excluding fertilizers) with the following information from October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022:

• The weight of material received from an HSP hauler and their name, contact information and RPRA registration number.
• The weight of material received from a person other than an HSP hauler and their name and contact information and RPRA registration number.
• The weight of recovered resources.
• A list of the types of resources recovered.
• The weight of materials processed from that type of HSP that were:
  • Land disposed,
  • Incinerated,
  • Used as a fuel or a fuel supplement, or
  • Stored, stockpiled, used as daily landfill cover or otherwise deposited on land
• The weight of material that was sent by the processor to another person for the purpose of making recovered resources and the types of products made by that other person.
• The weight of any materials received from outside of Ontario.
• The name, contact information and RPRA registration number of the PRO(s), if the processor belongs to a PRO(s) management system.

The recycling efficiency rate at each processor’s facility (excluding pesticides) in accordance with the HSP Verification and Audit Procedure.

Going forward, the report will include the information from the previous calendar year only.

Beginning October 1, 2021, processors that accept more than 50 kilograms of HSP on a single day from a person who is not a hauler are required to keep records for a period of five years from the date of the record being created.

Processors must keep records that relate to the following:

• The person’s name and contact information.
• The weight of material accepted on that day from that person.