Frequently Asked Questions

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: General , Registry , RPRA Program and Registry Fees

  Toggle the submenu Will I pay my fees using a prepaid account like in HWIN?

  No. Fees will be invoiced monthly and will include applicable fees for manifests completed during the previous month. Fees for onsite disposal will be invoiced at the time the disposal activity report is completed. 

  See FAQ: What payment methods are available in the Registry?

  See FAQ: Who pays RPRA’s HWP Registry fees?  

  See FAQ: What information is included on an invoice for HWP Registry fees? 

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: General , Registry , RPRA Program and Registry Fees

  Toggle the submenu When will I have to pay HWP Registry fees?

  Fees are tied to the activities that generators report on or that are reported on their behalf by authorized generator delegates (AGDs) (e.g., manifests and on-site storage, processing and disposal). Fees will be invoiced on the first day of each month and will include all manifests completed in the previous month.

  RPRA consulted industry stakeholders on the 2023 HWP Registry Fees from October 6 to November 21, 2022 and, based on the feedback received, the HWP Registry Fees have been set on the following basis:

  • fees is charged to generators only, aligning with the current Hazardous Waste Program fee structure
  • the manifest fee has been set at $5, the same rate as today, and will be charged per manifest
  • the tonnage fee has been set at $27.50, instead of the past $30 fee, and will only apply to shipped hazardous waste and hazardous waste that is disposed on site which remains the same as today’s framework
  • there is no annual registration fee
  • all existing fee exemptions are maintained, as per Ontario Regulation 323/22: Subject Waste Program

  View the 2023 HWP Registry Fees Schedule

  See FAQ: Will I pay my fees using a prepaid account like HWIN?

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: General , Registry , RPRA Program and Registry Fees

  Toggle the submenu Do I need to pay fees to use the HWP Registry

  Yes. Registry fees cover RPRA’s costs to build, deploy and maintain the Registry, and to provide ongoing support to Registry users. As an administrative authority of the Government of Ontario, RPRA does not receive any government funding and recovers its costs through fees charged to regulated parties. The Registry fees are unrelated to the fees your service provider may charge for managing your waste and for reporting on your behalf.

  See FAQ: When will I have to pay HWP Registry Fees ?

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: General , Registry

  Toggle the submenu Is it possible to save and download the waste manifest from the new HWP Registry? 

  Yes, users will be able to access, download and print a PDF version of their manifest from the HWP Registry.

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: Carrier , General , Receiver , Registry

  Toggle the submenu Do carriers and receivers have to create an account in the HWP Registry? 

  Yes. Carriers and receivers are required to create an account in the HWP Registry and link their active Environmental Compliance Approval numbers to their Registry accounts. Starting January 1, 2023, businesses and institutions regulated by the Hazardous Waste Program are required to report information through the Registry instead of through HWIN. Only carriers and receivers who have Registry accounts will be able to be listed on manifests.

  Carriers can find training resources for account set up here

  Receivers can find training resources for account set up here

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: General , Registry

  Toggle the submenu If I already have an HWIN account, do I still have to set up an account in the HWP Registry?

  Yes, all users who have an active waste stream associated with an active facility and have not delegated account creation to an Authorized Generator Delegate are required to create an account in the HWP Registry. Account creation consists of entering your company name and contact information and creating usernames and passwords. Once you create an account in the new registry, you will be able to migrate all of your existing generator numbers from HWIN (and associated facility and waste information) to your one company account.

  If you are a generator who is fully delegating to an Authorized Generator Delegate (AGD), you will not have to create a Registry account. In that case, the AGD will manage your facility and waste information under their own Registry account.

  If you are a generator who doesn’t have an active waste stream associated with an active facility, there is no need to create a registry account or delegate an AGD to do so on your behalf.

  See FAQ: Will HWIN users’ data be migrated to the HWP Registry?

  See FAQ: What is delegation?

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: General , Registry

  Toggle the submenu Will my prepaid account balance in HWIN be transferred over to the HWP Registry?

  HWIN pre-paid balances have not been transferred to the HWP Registry. The regulated community no longer has access to HWIN to manage their accounts and pay fees associated with activities from 2022 or earlier.

  If necessary, the ministry will contact generators to address balances remaining in HWIN pre-paid accounts from 2022. The Ministry can be contacted at HazardousWasteProgram@ontario.ca

  Read RPRA HWP Registry Fees Schedule

  See FAQ: Will I pay my fees using a prepaid account like in HWIN?

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: General , Registry

  Toggle the submenu Has HWIN users’ data been migrated to the HWP Registry?

  Yes, in October 2022, RPRA has migrated the facility and waste stream data identified below to the new registry to minimize the volume of data users would otherwise have to enter from scratch.

  Data that has been migrated into the Registry from HWIN includes:

  1. Active generators accounts:

  • Generator ID
  • Company details
  • Site location
  • Company official / alternate HWIN Administrator details
  • Site Details
  • Waste Identification (for active wastes):
    • Waste Class
    • Waste Stream
    • Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) Notification Form
  • Fee exemptions

  1. Carrier and Receiver Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) information:

  • ECA number
  • Company Name
  • Site location
  • Company admin / official information
  • Waste codes

  *The following data has not been migrated:

  • Generator accounts where the generator number or ID begins with ONR or ONF
  • Inactive waste streams and facilities
  • Manifests
  • On-site processing, storage and disposal information
  • LDR questionnaires (only LDR notification forms will be migrated)
  • Financial information (including account balances, payment information)
  • Document attachments (such as copies of Environmental Compliance Approvals)

  Note: while some recently expired generator accounts might have been migrated to the registry, users should have ensured that their data in the HWIN system is accurate and up to date ahead of the migration in October to ensure their data is accessible in the registry. This may have included reactivating inactive waste streams and facilities in HWIN in order for them to be migrated to the registry.

   

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: General , Registry

  Toggle the submenu Will the new Registry be through HWIN (the Hazardous Waste Information Network)? Will HWIN still be a thing?

  As of January 1, 2023, generators, carriers, and receivers of industrial hazardous or liquid waste are required to report their hazardous waste management activities and pay fees through RPRA’s digital Hazardous Waste Program (HWP) Registry or HazTrack mobile app and instead of through HWIN (the Hazardous Waste Information Network).

  The HWP Registry is open since November 15, 2022, to allow generators or their delegated service providers (also referred to as an “authorized generator delegate”) to create an account and add facilities and waste streams.

  HWIN pre-paid balances have not been transferred to the HWP Registry. The regulated community no longer has access to HWIN to manage their accounts and pay fees associated with activities from 2022 or earlier.

  If necessary, the ministry will contact generators to address balances remaining in HWIN pre-paid accounts from 2022. 

   

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• Program: Hazardous Waste

  Topic: General , Registry

  Toggle the submenu Who do I contact about the HWP Registry? 

  Please direct all questions related to the HWP Registry to RPRA via registry@rpra.ca.

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