COMPLIANCE ACTIVITIES

RPRA enforces the requirements of the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016 (RRCEA) and its regulations. Obligated parties are required to register with RPRA and report on their supply and management of regulated materials.

RPRA will publish information on our compliance activities and update data on the number of registered producers, open inspections, non-compliance cases, potential free riders, and report completions annually to this page.

The table below gives a snapshot of compliance case numbers as of December 31, 2022.

Inspections are opened for any instance of potential non-compliance, such as free-riding, incorrect reporting, incomplete or late reporting, and failure to pay fees.

Inspections are labeled non-compliance cases when, after investigating the potential non-compliance, a contravention of the producer responsibility regulations under the RRCEA is reasonably suspected.

All numbers below are as of December 31, 2022, unless otherwise noted.

The chart at right shows potential free riders by program as of December 31, 2022. Potential free rider cases are open inspections that consist of a potential failure to register and report.

The table below shows the number of producers registered by program and year, as of December 31, 2022, and the number of producer responsibility organizations (PROs) registered with RPRA as of June 2023 to manage material for each producer responsibility program.

Producers can register in more than one program and each program registration is counted as a separate registration. (i.e., a business that registers in both the Blue Box and Hazardous and Special Products programs is represented as two producers).

Similarly, PROs can register in more than one program and each program registration is counted as a separate registration.

The table below shows the number and percentage of registered producers that completed their required 2022 supply and/or performance reporting by December 31, 2022.