Municipal Hazardous or Special Waste Programme Wind Up - Stewardship Ontario
This article is reposted from the Resource Productivity & Recovery Authority report into the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change decision to wind up the Municipal Hazardous or Special Waste Programme in Ontario.
On Thursday, April 12, 2018, the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change issued direction to Stewardship Ontario (SO) to wind up the Municipal Hazardous or Special Waste Program (MHSW) by December 31, 2020. This wind up will allow the transition of materials collected under the program to individual producer responsibility under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016. Read the Minister’s letters (they replace a previous version that contained an administrative error):