Supply and recovery of electronics in Ontario

Obligated companies who supply electronics into Ontario, specifically information technology and telecommunications/audio-visual equipment, are required by the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulation to meet resource recovery requirements. By law, electronic producers must report every year on the weight of electronics they supply into Ontario, and how they met the resource recovery requirements.  

For more information about resource recovery and Ontario’s recycling laws, visit our information section on the circular economy.  

Reporting on electronics recovery

RPRA will report aggregated electronics supply and recovery data annually to this page, along with annual reductions applied to the recovery requirement for electronics.  

Types of data reported: 

• Supply: The weight of electronics supplied into the Ontario market.
• Recovery: The weight of collected end-of-life electronics that were refurbished or processed into recovered materials.
• Recovery rate requirement: The percent of electronics supplied that producers are required to recover in a year, determined using a three year rolling average of supplied weight.
• Resource recovery requirement: The weight of electronics producers are required to recover.
• Recovery requirement reduction: Reduction to the overall recovery requirement as determined by the weight of electronics supplied that were reported as containing post-consumer recycled content, have extended warranties, or are repairable.

The data on this page was finalized on April 22, 2025, and the data reported is subject to change. This page will be updated annually with the most accurate data RPRA has available to publish at the time. Published reports do not contain commercially sensitive information.

Obligated producers of electronics began reporting their annual supply of electronics into Ontario to RPRA in 2021.

The annual weight of electronics are reported to RPRA two years after they are supplied, as shown in the table below:

Electronics supplied into Ontario from 2018-2022

Producers of electronics are required to report the weight of recovered resources from processing or refurbishing electronics to RPRA annually.

Recovering electronics means collecting end-of-life and/or discarded electronics and refurbishing them or breaking them down into component parts or materials for recycling or reuse.

The annual weight of electronics recovered is reported to RPRA the year after they were recovered, as shown in the table below:

The quantity of electronic materials a producer is required to recover in a given year can be reduced by up to 50% if the electronics they supplied have extended warranties, contain post-consumer recycled material, or can be repaired and for which the producer made tools and instructions available.

The below chart shows the annual tonnes reported to date as meeting these criteria. The recovery requirement reduction, which applies to the following year’s recovery requirement, is different for each category:

• For extended warranties: the volume of electronics reported as having a warranty beyond one year, a 5% reduction in recovery requirement for each additional year.
• For post-consumer recycled content: equivalent reduction in recovery requirement for the volume of electronics reported as containing recycled material.
• For repairability: a reduction in recovery requirement by 10% of the volume of electronics reported as being repairable with tools and instructions provided by the producer.

The electronics supply and recovery data available on this webpage can be downloaded here.

View our resource recovery reports webpage for more information on other programs RPRA oversees.