Resource Recovery Reports

Companies that supply tires, Blue Box materials, hazardous or special products (e.g., paint, automotive materials), batteries, lighting, or electronics in Ontario are obligated under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016 (RRCEA) to recycle or reuse their products and packaging when consumers are finished with them.

Companies must report to RPRA every year the amount of material they supply into the Ontario market, and their performance meeting the recycling and reuse targets set out in the regulations issued under the RRCEA.

RPRA reports the following annually:

Supply: The amount of materials supplied into the Ontario market. 
Resource recovery requirement: The amount of materials producers are required to collect and recycle or reuse. 
Recovery requirement reduction: The reduction to the overall recovery requirement based on specific criteria outlined in each regulation.

Published reports do not contain commercially sensitive information. 

For more information about Ontario’s recycling laws, visit our website.

RPRA publishes data for each program as soon as possible after reporting deadlines have passed. Data may be unverified and is subject to change as audit and verification activities and compliance inspections unfold.

Resource Recovery Reports

Batteries

View data on the dedicated batteries reporting webpage.

Blue Box

The supply and collection data in this section is also available in an Excel format, which can be downloaded here.

Supply, Resource Recovery Requirements and Deductions

Blue Box producers report the weight of Blue Box materials to RPRA after a one-year lag (e.g., 2023 supply weight is reported to RPRA in 2024). The below dates represent the years that supply data was reported to RPRA.

Category	2022 gross supplied materials	2022 supply after deductions	Resource recovery requirement for 2024
Beverage Container	121,213.90	121,213.90	60,603.63
Glass	66,937.38	66,794.95	33,383.33
Flexible Plastic	77,763.78	76,791.85	12,752.10
Rigid Plastic	140,994.74	134,219.94	44,692.98
Metal	58,800.46	58,629.78	26,165.73
Paper	529,097.16	499,879.57	250,968.44
Certified Compostable Products and Packaging	2,238.05	2,238.05	N/A*
*There are no resource recovery requirements for compostables. All data is in tonnes This data was published on May 30, 2025

Category	2021 gross supplied materials	2021 supply after deductions	Resource recovery requirement for 2023
Beverage Container	112,841.23	112,841.23	28,209.06
Glass	64,751.28	64,751.20	16,182.06
Flexible Plastic	87,757.06	86,709.00	7,204.50
Rigid Plastic	133,912.77	131,817.97	21,967.28
Metal	49,308.82	49,293.50	10,998.81
Paper	536,770.54	524,090.78	131,303.92
Certified Compostable Products and Packaging	1,822.25	1,822.25	N/A*
*There are no resource recovery requirements for compostables. All data is in tonnes This data was updated on May 30, 2025

Category	2020 gross supplied materials	2020 supply after deductions
Beverage Container	122,646.42	122,646.42
Glass	66,014.33	66,013.96
Flexible Plastic	91,809.43	89,587.55
Rigid Plastic	155,925.02	153,585.87
Metal	55,078.54	55,039.65
Paper	564,681.42	541,373.11
Certified Compostable Products and Packaging	2,455.47	2,455.47
All data is in tonnes This data was updated on May 30, 2025

Collection

Blue Box producers, or PROs on their behalf, report the weight of Blue Box materials collected to RPRA after a one-year lag (e.g., materials collected in 2023 are reported to RPRA in 2024). The below date represents the year in which materials were collected and processed in.

Blue Box producers, or PROs on their behalf, reported the weight of Blue Box materials collected and sent to primary processors in 2023 to RPRA by October 15, 2024. The following data represents materials collected from approximately 1/3 of all Ontario communities from July 1 to December 31, 2023. These were the first communities to transition to the producer-run Blue Box Program (within year one of the two-and-a-half-year transition period).

PROs reported that 85% of Blue Box materials collected and sent for sorting in 2023 was subsequently packaged and sent for further processing, while 15% was sent to landfill. Note that the 2023 collection data has not been audited.

The table below provides further details of what was collected.

Collected Blue Box materials	Amount collected
Beverage Container	9,307.77
Glass	8,290.65
Flexible Plastic	2,395.87
Rigid Plastic	10,527.22
Metal	3,524.34
Paper	66,417.48
Total collected	100,463.32
Disposed to landfill (Blue Box material residue)	15,637.47
Total sent for further processing	84,825.85
All data is in tonnes This data was published on May 30, 2025

Note: During the transition period (July 1, 2023, to December 31, 2025), RPRA is only requiring that data related to collection and primary processing of Blue Box materials be reported.

Hazardous and Special Products

The supply and recovery data in this section is also available in an Excel format, which can be downloaded here.

Supply, Resource Recovery Requirements and Reductions

Note: The Hazardous and Special Products Regulation sets resource recovery requirements for oil filters and non-refillable pressurized containers only.

HSP producers report the weight of materials to RPRA after a one-year lag (e.g., 2023 supply weight is reported to RPRA in 2024). The below dates represent the years that supply data was reported to RPRA.

Material type	2023 supply	Resource recovery requirement for 2025
Antifreeze	19,930.28	N/A
Oil Filters	5,472.98	4,674.64
Oil Containers	3,854.78	N/A
Paints and Coatings	91,877.32	N/A
Solvents	9,527.21	N/A
Non-Refillable Pressurized Containers	1,701.81	528.25
Refillable Pressurized Containers	753.22	N/A
Pesticides	112.15	N/A
All data is in tonnes This data was published on May 30, 2025

Material type	2022 supply	Resource recovery requirement for 2024
Antifreeze	16,899.42	N/A
Oil Filters	5,765.69	4,851.09
Oil Containers	4,289.82	N/A
Paints and Coatings	104,892.70	N/A
Solvents	5,507.66	N/A
Non-Refillable Pressurized Containers	1,989.95	446.01
Refillable Pressurized Containers	778.25	N/A
Pesticides	141.27	N/A
All data is in tonnes This data was updated on May 30, 2025

Material type	2021 supply	Resource recovery requirement for 2023
Antifreeze	15,341.38	N/A
Oil Filters	6,156.58	5,154.62
Oil Containers	5,004.730	N/A
Paints and Coatings	101,797.19	N/A
Solvents	5,121.97	N/A
Non-Refillable Pressurized Containers	1,612.72	400.33
Refillable Pressurized Containers	985.59	N/A
Pesticides	94.14	N/A
All data is in tonnes This data was updated on May 30, 2025

Material type	Year	2018, 2019 and 2022 supply	Resource recovery requirement 2021/2022
Antifreeze	2018 2019 2020	20,199.90 20,074.83 18,442.37	N/A
Oil Filters	2018 2019 2020	6,134.51 6,446.66 5,630.11	5,141.84
Oil Containers	2018 2019 2020	4,130.82 4,456.88 4,179.58	N/A
Paints and Coatings	2018 2019 2020	92,810.31 90,184.51 103,432.12	N/A
Solvents	2018 2019 2020	4,485.03 4,461.49 4,752.00	N/A
Non-Refillable Pressurized Containers	2018 2019 2020	1,596.33 1,577.47 1,806.33	329.50
Refillable Pressurized Containers	2018 2019 2020	918.96 822.16 1,021.49	N/A
Pesticides	2018 2019 2020	114.14 109.72 118.96	N/A
All data is in tonnes This data was updated on May 30, 2025

Recovery

HSP producers, or PROs on their behalf, report the weight of materials collected and recovered to RPRA after a one-year lag (e.g., materials collected and recovered in 2023 are reported to RPRA in 2024). The below date represents the year in which materials were collected and recovered in.

Producers, or PROs on their behalf, and service providers were required to report 2023 recovery results for collecting and recovering oil filters and non-refillable pressurized containers by July 31, 2024. Recovery reports submitted in 2024 show that the 85% recovery requirement for oil filters outlined in the HSP Regulation was achieved. The 25% recovery requirement for non-refillable pressurized containers was not achieved.

The chart below provides further details of the sector’s 2023 collection and recovery against requirements outlined in the regulation.

Material type	Collected HSP	2023 recovery requirement	Recovered HSP	Recovery rate requirement	Actual recovery rate
Antifreeze and Oil Containers	1,986.05		2,706.28
Antifreeze Liquid	3,830.18		1,596.17
Oil Filters	7,606.77	5,154.62*	5,513.14	85%	90.91%
Paints and Coatings	10,650.21		7,461.37
Solvents	224.99		18.25
Refillable Pressurized Containers	1,920.03		2,106.64
Non-refillable Pressurized Containers	259.87	400.33**	254.98	25%	15.92%
Pesticides	26.01		0
85% of rolling three-year average of supply *25% of rolling three-year average of supply All data is in tonnes This data was published on May 30, 2025

HSP producers, or PROs on their behalf, and service providers were required to report 2022 recovery results for collecting and recovering used HSP by September 15, 2023. Recovery reports submitted in 2023 show that the 85% recovery requirement for oil filters outlined in the HSP Regulation was achieved. However, the 20% recovery requirement for non-refillable pressurized containers was not achieved.

The chart below provides further details of the sector’s 2022 collection and recovery against requirements outlined in the regulation.

Material type	Collected HSP	2022 recovery requirement	Recovered HSP	Recovery rate requirement	Actual recovery rate
Antifreeze and Oil Containers	4,725.77		3,805.21
Antifreeze Liquid	3,045.25		1,682.98
Oil Filters	9,563.84	5,141.48*	5,623.57	85%	92.97%
Paints and Coatings	9,082.37		7,178.47
Solvents	480.02		13.39
Refillable Pressurized Containers	2,508.01		2,477.65
Non-refillable Pressurized Containers	267.24	329.50**	266.83	20%	16.20%
Pesticides	37.72		0
85% of rolling three-year average of supply *20% of rolling three-year average of supply All data is in tonnes This data was updated on May 30, 2025

ITT/AV (information technology, telecommunications, audio-visual equipment)

View data on the dedicated electronics reporting webpage.

Lighting

The supply and recovery data in this section is also available in an Excel format, which can be downloaded here.

Supply, Resource Recovery Requirements and Reductions

Lighting producers report the weight of lighting to RPRA after a two-year lag (e.g., 2022 supply weight is reported to RPRA in 2024). The below dates represent the years that supply data was reported to RPRA.

Program	2022 supply	Resource recovery reductions applicable to 2022 supply*	Resource recovery requirement for 2025
Lighting	4,187.44	2.50	1,421.65
*Recycled content reported in 2024 and applied to 2025 recovery requirement All data is in tonnes This data was published on May 30, 2025

Program	2021 supply	Resource recovery reductions applicable to 2021 supply*	Resource recovery requirement for 2024
Lighting	4,910.14	3.20	1,573.27
*Recycled content reported in 2023 and applied to 2024 recovery requirement All data is in tonnes This data was updated on May 30, 2025

Program	2018, 2019, and 2020 supply	Resource recovery reductions applicable to 2018; 2019; 2020 supply*	Resource recovery requirement for 2023
Lighting	2020: 5,205.12 2019: 5,673.55 2018: 5,903.30	2020: 3.20 2019: 3.10 2018: 3.20	1,674.75
*Recycled content reported in 2022 and applied to 2023 recovery requirement All data is in tonnes This data was updated on May 30, 2025

Recovery

Note: The Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) Regulation requires lighting producers to make “best efforts” to meet the recovery rate requirements in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. In determining whether an obligated producer used best efforts to meet their management requirements, RPRA considers whether the producer, acting in good faith, took all reasonable steps to meet the requirements outlined in the EEE Regulation.

Lighting producers, or PROs on their behalf, report the weight of lighting recovered to RPRA after a one-year lag (e.g., materials recovered in 2023 are reported to RPRA in 2024). The below date represents the year in which materials were recovered in.

Lighting producers, or PROs on their behalf, and service providers were required to report 2023 recovery results for collecting and recovering used lighting by April 30, 2024. Recovery reports submitted in 2024 show that the 30% recovery requirement for lighting outlined in the EEE Regulation was not achieved.

The chart below provides further details of the sector’s 2023 performance against targets outlined in the regulation.

Lighting materials	Materials recovered
Glass	555.41
Plastic	20.43
Mercury	0.00
Metals	71.17
Other	0.00
Recovery requirement*	1,674.75
Total materials recovered	647.01
Recovery rate requirement	30%
Actual recovery rate	11.59%
*30% of three-year rolling average of supply All data is in tonnes This data was updated on June 6, 2025

Tires

As of January 1, 2025, the amended Tires Regulation no longer requires collection requirements and specifies recovery requirements of 65% for all tires and 60% for large tires based on reported supply.

The revised supply and recovery data in this section is now available in an Excel format which can be downloaded here.

Supply and Collection/Resource Recovery Requirements

Category	2022 Supplied tonnes (reported in 2024)	Recovery Requirement for 2025 (based off 3-year rolling average supply)
All tires	207,885	130,532
Large tires greater than 700kg	5,652	2,925
All data is in tonnes This data was published on March 20, 2025

Category	2021 Supplied tonnes (reported in 2023)	Collection Requirement for 2024 (based off 3-year rolling average supply)
All tires	208,774	173,623
Large tires greater than 700kg	4,791	2,706
All data is in tonnes This data was published on March 20, 2025

Category	2020 Supplied tonnes (reported in 2022)	Collection Requirement for 2023 (based off 3-year rolling average supply)
All tires	186,236	175,465
Large tires greater than 700kg	4,069	2,777
All data is in tonnes This data was published on March 20, 2025

Category	2019 Supplied tonnes (reported in 2021)	Collection Requirement for 2022 (based off 3-year rolling average supply)
All tires	219,492	183,995
Large tires greater than 700kg	4,554	2,789
All data is in tonnes This data was published on March 20, 2025

Category	2018 Supplied tonnes (reported in 2020)	Collection Requirement for 2021 (based off 3-year rolling average supply)
All tires	215,187	179,504
Large tires greater than 700kg	5,147	2,680
All data is in tonnes This data was published on March 20, 2025

Recovery

Tire producers, or PROs on their behalf, and service providers were required to report 2023 recovery results for collecting and recovering used tires by May 31, 2024. Recovery reports submitted by PROs in 2024 show that the 60% collection rate for large tires and the 85% recovery rate target for all tires outlined in the Tires Regulation were achieved. However, the 85% collection target for all tires was not achieved. Note that the 2023 recovery results have been audited.

The chart below provides further details of the sector’s 2023 performance against targets outlined in the regulation.

	Weight of Recovered or Refurbished Tires	PLT Equivalent
Collection Target for All Tires (85% of 3-year Rolling Average of Supply)	175,465	16,552,133
Actual All Tires Collected	162,948	15,371,368
All Tires Collection Rate (collection/annual average supply)	78.94%
Collection Target for Large Tires (60% of 3-year Rolling Average of Supply)	2,777	262,340
Actual Large Tires Collected	3,655	344,787
Large Tires Collection Rate (collection/annual average supply)	78.97%
Tires Sent for Reuse	5,899	556,470
Tires Retreaded	18,870	1,780,063
Processed Tires – Crumb Rubber	85,020	8,020,189
Processed Tires – Mulch	1,001	94,427
Processed Tires – Aggregate	996	93,956
Processed Tires – Rubber Strips/Chunks	6,329	597,033
Processed Tires – Metal	21,304	2,009,669
Processed Tires – Fluff/Fibre	0
Processed Tires – Other	3,719	350,824
Total Collected	162,948	15,371,368
Recovery Target (85% of All Tires Collected)	138,506	13,065,663
Total Recovered	143,138	13,502,632
Total Recovery Rate	87.84%
All data is in tonnes This data was published on March 20, 2025

Tire producers, or PROs on their behalf, and service providers were required to report 2022 recovery results for collecting and recovering used tires by May 31, 2023. Recovery reports submitted by PROs in 2023 show that the 60% collection rate for large tires and the 85% recovery rate target for all tires outlined in the Tires Regulation were achieved. However, the 85% collection target for all tires was not achieved. Note that the 2022 recovery results have been audited as of March 5, 2025.

The chart below provides further details of the sector’s 2022 performance against targets outlined in the regulation.

	*Weight of Recovered or Refurbished Tires	*PLT Equivalent
Collection Target for All Tires (85% of 3-year Rolling Average of Supply)	183,995	17,356,794
Actual All Tires Collected	164,578	15,525,130
All Tires Collection Rate (collection/annual average supply)	76.03%
Collection Target for Large Tires (60% of 3-year Rolling Average of Supply)	2,789	263,095
Actual Large Tires Collected	3,176	299,601
Large Tires Collection Rate (collection/annual average supply)	68.33%
Tires Sent for Reuse	3,170	299,026
Tires Retreaded	14,942	1,409,523
Processed Tires – Crumb Rubber	94,936	8,955,594
Processed Tires – Mulch	1,185	111,785
Processed Tires – Aggregate	1,343	126,689
Processed Tires – Rubber Strips/Chunks	4,589	432,894
Processed Tires – Metal	20,608	1,944,014
Processed Tires – Fluff/Fibre	199	18,772
Processed Tires – Other	2,436	229,795
Total Collected	164,578	15,525,130
Recovery Target (85% of All Tires Collected)	139,891	13,196,361
Total Recovered	143,408	13,528,092
Total Recovery Rate	87.14%
All data is in tonnes *This data is audited and was published on March 20, 2025

Tire producers, or PROs on their behalf, and service providers were required to report 2021 recovery results for collecting and recovering used tires by May 31, 2022. Audited recovery reports submitted by PROs in 2022 show that the 60% collection rate for large tires and the 85% recovery rate target for all tires outlined in the Tires Regulation was achieved. However, the 85% collection target for all tires was not achieved.

The chart below provides further details of the sector’s 2021 recovery against targets outlined in the regulation.

	Weight of Recovered or Refurbished Tires	PLT Equivalent
Collection Target for All Tires (85% of 3-year Rolling Average of Supply)	178,629	16,850,577
Actual All Tires Collected	155,948	14,711,010
All Tires Collection Rate (collection/annual average supply)	74%
Collection Target for Large Tires (60% of 3-year Rolling Average of Supply)	2,680	252,793
Actual Large Tires Collected	2,948	278,115
Large Tires Collection Rate (collection/annual average supply)	66%
Tires Sent for Reuse	3,124	294,693
Tires Retreaded	17,012	1,604,812
Processed Tires – Crumb Rubber	86,774
Processed Tires – Mulch	143
Processed Tires – Aggregate	400
Processed Tires – Rubber Strips/Chunks	3,075
Processed Tires – Metal	20,738
Processed Tires – Fluff/Fibre	159
Processed Tires – Other	3,672
Total Collected	155,948*	14,711,010*
Recovery Target (85% of All Tires Collected)	132,556	12,504,358
Total Recovered	135,096	12,743,978
Total Recovery Rate	86.63%*
All data is in tonnes *This data was originally published on December 22, 2022. The data was revised on February 22, 2023 due to a miscalculation.

Tire producers, or PROs on their behalf, and service providers were also required to report 2020 recovery results for collecting and recovering used tires by May 31, 2021. Audited recovery reports submitted by PROs in 2021 show that the 85% recovery rate target for all tires outlined in the Tires Regulation was achieved (producers must ensure that 85% of the tires they collected in a year, by weight, were reused, retreaded or turned into processed).

The chart below provides further details of the sector’s 2020 recovery against targets outlined in the regulation.

	Weight of Recovered or Refurbished Tires	PLT Equivalent
Collection Target for All Tires (85% of Average of Total Supplied)	175,039	16,511,946
Actual All Tires Collected	158,770	14,977,279
All Tires Collection Rate (collection/annual average supply)	77%
Collection Target for Large Tires (60% of Average of Total Supplied)	2,369	223,507
Actual Large Tires Collected	4,498	424,329
Large Tires Collection Rate (collection/annual average supply)	114%
Tires Sent for Reuse	2,786	262,809
Tires Retreaded	16,728	1,577,959
Processed Tires – Crumb Rubber	90,072
Processed Tires – Mulch	256
Processed Tires – Aggregate	151
Processed Tires – Rubber Strips/Chunks	1,917
Processed Tires – Metal	20,626
Processed Tires – Fluff/Fibre	105
Processed Tires – Other	4,592
Recovery Target (85% of All Tires Collected)	138,778	13,091,367
Total Collected	158,770	14,977,279
Total Recovered	137,231	12,945,442
Total Recovery Rate	86.00%
This data was published on June 3, 2022

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