2024 compliance activities

RPRA enforces the requirements of the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016 (RRCEA) and its regulations for Batteries, Blue Box, Hazardous and Special Products, Electronics, Lighting and Tires. Obligated businesses are required to register with RPRA and report on their supply and recovery of regulated materials.

RPRA publishes the following compliance information annually to its website:

• Compliance cases
  • Inspections: Cases addressing any instance of potential non-compliance, such as free-riding, incorrect reporting, incomplete or late reporting, or failure to pay RPRA’s program fees.
  • Potential free riders: Businesses that may be obligated under the RRCEA to register with RPRA as a producer but haven’t.
  • Non-compliance cases: Inspection cases where, after investigation, a contravention of the producer responsibility regulations is reasonably suspected.
• The number of producers and producer responsibility organizations (PROs) registered for each program.
• Report submissions: The number of supply reports producers submitted.
• Report submission rates: The percentage of registered producers that submitted supply reports by the end of a given year.
• Compliance interactions: Incoming and outgoing phone calls and emails with RPRA’s Compliance and Registry Team.

Data on this page was published on May 30, 2025.

Potential free riders are businesses that may be obligated under the RRCEA to register with RPRA as a producer but haven’t. RPRA closed 248 free rider cases in 2024.

Number of potential free riders by program

Toggle between 2022-2024 to see the number of potential free rider cases open as of December 31 of each year by program.

Producers can enroll in more than one program and are counted as separate registered producers in each relevant program. For example, a business that registers in both the Blue Box and Hazardous and Special Products programs is represented as an individual producer in each program. 

The below graphs show the number of registered producers and PROs by program in 2023 and 2024, as well as the total number of registered producers from 2021 to 2024. The number of producers has increased as new regulatory requirements came into effect and programs opened for registration. Download this Excel for a full breakdown of registered producers and PROs per program and materials.

The table below shows the number and percentage of registered producers that submitted their annual supply report by December 31, 2024.

Compliance and registry support interactions refer to calls and emails to and from RPRA staff regarding our registry and programs. These interactions can vary and include responding to enquiries to support businesses, investigating cases, and helping obligated businesses register and report.