To create a Registry account with the Authority, you will need to provide:
You will have to meet the registration requirements for every category that applies to you.
Resident in Ontario means a person having a permanent establishment in Ontario within the meaning of the Corporations Tax Act. A permanent establishment is usually a fixed place of business such as an office, factory, branch, warehouse, workshop, etc. In some cases, a corporation will be deemed to operate a permanent establishment in Ontario. These include cases where:
For more details about what constitutes a permanent establishment, see the definition of “permanent establishment” in the Corporations Tax Act.
Under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, the Authority is required to provide an annual report to the Minister that includes information on aggregate producer performance, and a summary of compliance and enforcement activities. Under section 51 of the Act, the Registrar also is required to post every order issued on the Registry.
No. Producers and PROs working on their behalf must operate the collection and management systems they have established as required by the Regulation even after their minimum management requirements are met.
The Tires Regulation requires producers to submit to the Registry the identity of each tire collector and tire collection site that is a part of that producer’s tire collection system. It is up to each producer, or a producer responsibility organization (PRO) on the producer’s behalf, to identify the tire collection sites that will be used in their tire collection systems.
Tire collectors are required to register and identify their collection sites (i.e., the address for every individual site where tires are collected). The collection site data will be used to populate a list of collection sites that will be available to producers and PROs. Producers, or their PROs, will be required to identify their tire collection systems.
Please read Compliance Bulletin -Tire Collection Systems for compliance guidance to producers who are required to establish and operate tire collection systems under the Tires Regulation.
As a retailer, you may also be a producer and/or a collector, based on the definitions in the Tires Regulation.
Businesses will continue to have discretion over whether they charge a fee to recover the cost of recycling their products. If a business chooses to charge a fee, they are no longer required to provide information about who is charging the visible fee and what it will be used for.
Effective for the 2025 calendar year, and every year thereafter, producers no longer have collection targets and do not have to collect a minimum weight of used tires.
A producer’s individual management requirement is determined by formulas found in section 12 of the Regulation. See the tables below for details:
Management requirements for all tires
| Performance Year | Supply Report Year | Formula |
|---|---|---|
| *2025 | 2024 | [(2020 supply + 2021 supply + 2022 supply) / 3)]×65% |
| 2026 | 2025 | [(2021 supply + 2022 supply + 2023 supply) / 3)]×65% |
| 2027 | 2026 | [(2022 supply + 2023 supply + 2024 supply) / 3)]×65% |
| 2028 | 2027 | [(2023 supply + 2024 supply + 2025 supply) / 3)]×65% |
| 2029 | 2028 | [(2024 supply + 2025 supply + 2026 supply) / 3)]×65% |
| 2030 | 2029 | [(2025 supply + 2026 supply + 2027 supply) / 3)]×70% |
Management requirements for large tires
| Performance Year | Supply Report Year | Formula |
|---|---|---|
| *2025 | 2024 | [(2020 supply + 2021 supply + 2022 supply) / 3)]×60% |
| 2026 | 2025 | [(2021 supply + 2022 supply + 2023 supply) / 3)]×60% |
| 2027 | 2026 | [(2022 supply + 2023 supply + 2024 supply) / 3)]×60% |
| 2028 | 2027 | [(2023 supply + 2024 supply + 2025 supply) / 3)]×60% |
| 2029 | 2028 | [(2024 supply + 2025 supply + 2026 supply) / 3)]×60% |
| 2030 | 2029 | [(2025 supply + 2026 supply + 2027 supply) / 3)]×60% |
*For reports submitted in 2024, producers should use RPRA’s manual calculator.
It is important to note that producers must ensure that all collected tires are managed, regardless of what their minimum management requirement is.
Note: Producers with a management requirement below a certain threshold may be exempt from registering with and reporting to RPRA.
See our FAQ ‘How do I determine if I am an exempt tire producer?’ to learn more.
You may be required to provide a verification report for the annual tire supply report. You will be required to provide verification if you meet the definition of a medium or large producer. Small producers will not be required to submit a verification report, however a percentage of small producers selected annually by the Registrar will be subject to an inspection. If exceptions are identified during the inspection, a comprehensive review may be carried out. For more information on this, read Tires Registry Procedure – Audit.
Program fees are charges that producers obligated under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016, are required to pay to RPRA annually to recover its operational costs, including costs related to building and operating the registry, providing services to registrants, and compliance and enforcement activities.
All current and past fee schedules can be found here.
Yes. Producers and service providers can enter into contractual agreements with multiple PROs.
No, producers are not required to sign up with a PRO to meet their regulatory requirements. It is a business decision if a producer chooses to work with a PRO, and a producer can choose to meet their obligations without a PRO.
Most producers will choose to contract with a PRO to provide collection, hauling, processing, retreading and/or refurbishing services to achieve their collection and management requirements unless they carry out these activities themselves.
Yes. PROs are private enterprises and charge for their services to producers.
Each commercial contract a producer enters with a PRO will have its own set of terms and conditions. It is up to the PRO and producer to determine the terms of their contractual agreement, including fees and payment schedule.
RPRA does not set the terms of the contractual arrangements between PROs and producers.
