Most of the following projects were made possible through CIF funding. Since its inception, CIF has supported communities across Ontario in their efforts to improve waste management practices. The projects featured on this page highlight innovative solutions and best practices that help communities reduce waste, increase recycling rates, and enhance the overall efficiency of their waste diversion systems.
The projects as listed in alphabetical order by title. A category filter is available as well.
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2-Stream Program Waste Composition Analysis
Analysis and summary of 2-stream recycling audit data from Medium Urban and Rural Regional WDO groupings undertaken from 2016-2020.
| Documents | Final Report: 2-Stream Recycling Composition Audit Data Analysis: Medium Urban and Rural Regional Municipal Groups |
| Blog Post | June 19, 2020: Waste audit analysis assists the City and County of Peterborough |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Composition Studies | |
December 8, 2020
2020 IPR Transition Financial Planning Model
Enhancements of Transition Planning Model for consideration of operational and financial implications from 2023-2025.
| Documents | Final model posted under Project #1116. |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #1116 Project #1132 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Models | Transition | |
June 25, 2020
2020 IPR Transition Financial Planning Model Ground Truthing
Data inputs and ground truthing of Transition Planning Model (Project #1115) for consideration of operational and financial implications from 2023-2025.
| Documents | Excel Model: Transition Planning Model |
| Blog Post | June 5, 2020: Financial model assists in identifying preferred transition date |
| Related Projects | Project #1115 Project #1132 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Models | Planning | Transition | |
June 25, 2020
40% Diversion
CIF supported the Township of Seguin to test enhanced promotion and education to potentially increase diversion from 22% to 40% using depots and two stream collection.
| Documents | Final Report: Enhanced Promotion and Education to Reach 40% Diversion |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
January 1, 2011
Algonquin Highlands Depot Audit
A waste composition study was undertaken at Algonquin Highland’s four, two stream recycling depots to obtain baseline data on the composition and contamination of the township’s Blue Box waste stream in anticipation of development of a new collection and processing tender. The project demonstrated that historical assumptions about the township’s contamination level were incorrect and resulted in a reduced processing cost. The analysis also demonstrated the benefit, in terms of a significant reduction in contamination, of having staffed recycling collection at depots frequented by seasonal residents. This project also aided in development of the CIF’s Small Municipal Depot Guidebook by providing information on reference materials. The total cost of the project was approximately $18,000.
| Documents | Final Report: Algonquin Highlands Recycling Depot Material Composition Study |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
October 16, 2014
Aluminum Blower Replacement
The OVWRC regularly encounters unscheduled down time due to aluminum jamming in their aluminum conveyance system. They propose to replace the existing system with a larger diameter tube and blower. The total cost of the project is approx. $60k with a projected savings of under 2 yrs. CIF has contributed $26,370 to the project representing up to 44% of costs.
| Documents | Report: Aluminum Blower Replacement |
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| Related Projects | Project #656.12 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
December 2, 2012
Analysis of Bill 91 Implications on Municipal Diversion Services
Bill 91 represents a fundamental potential change in the way waste diversion programs will be operated in Ontario. The City of Toronto in partnership with members of RPWCO sought to complete an analysis of the implications of the bill and its implications on municipal diversion programs. This information is expected to be of interest to all stakeholders seeking to understand what changes may need to be made to programs such as the Blue Box program should IPR legislation be implemented in Ontario. The total cost of the project is expected to be $95,000 and CIF is contributing up to $40,000 or 42%.
| Documents | Presentation: Primer on Bill 91 (The Waste Reduction Act) and The Waste Reduction Strategy Final Report: EPR Case Study Report |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | |
February 8, 2015
Analysis of Variability in Waste Composition Studies by RPRA Datacall Grouping
The CIF co-funds waste composition studies across the province annually with Stewardship Ontario. This project will analyze completed waste composition studies to determine if there is sufficient variability to warrant continued sampling from each of the nine RPRA Datacall groups.
| Documents | Final Report: Analysis of Variability in Waste Composition Studies by RPRA Datacall Grouping |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Composition Studies | |
December 20, 2019
Armour Energy and Labour Savings Initiatives
This project involves modification of Armour’s plastics handling processes to reduce labour costs. The projected cost of the work is expected to be $21,000 and CIF will contribute up to 36% of costs or approx. $7,600.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
March 1, 2017
Asset Valuation Resources
Municipalities owning major Blue Box related assets and businesses may need to value them prior to making decisions to retain or divest Blue Box operations following transition to IPR. The CIF developed a number of tools to value these assets:
- A sample template for consulting work to obtain a business valuation, strategic option evaluation and market analysis for a MRF processing business.
- A sample RFQ issued by a municipality including the scope of work required to obtain the current local real estate fair market value of an owned MRF building/land excluding process equipment or business assets.
- A sample template for listing MRF equipment details for use by the equipment valuation consultant contracted via the RFQ.
| Documents | MRF Business Valuation Sample RFP (Word) and RFP Proposal Evaluation Template (Excel) MRF Land and Building Appraisal Sample RFQ (Word) MRF Equipment Valuation Sample RFQ (Word) and Equipment Inventory Template (Excel) |
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| Categories | Transition | Valuation | |
November 10, 2017
Autocart Collection Analysis
This analysis will allow municipalities to decide if the payback on autocart collection systems will outweigh the drawbacks or vice versa resulting in more efficient collection programs.
| Documents | Final Report: Automated Cart Recycling: A Study of Municipal Collection and Operations in Ontario |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Collection | Collection Containers | |
July 31, 2016
Automated Blue Box Recycling Collection
Support for incremental cost of automation component of vehicles for automated BB recycling collection, plus recycling cart purchase and promotion and education.
| Documents | Final Report: Automated Blue Box Recycling Collection |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Collection Containers | Communication/Education | |
July 12, 2012
Automated Single Stream Processing
Goal: convert dual stream MRF to an automated single stream processing facility. Objectives include:
- Reduce labour costs by 50%;
- Reduce collection costs by 25% with single stream collection;
- Increase ability to accept material from other municipalities;
- Increase production capacity;
- Provide a safer work environment for employees and reduce WSIB claims.
| Documents | Final Report: Single Stream MRF/Automated Collection Project |
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| Related Projects | Project #176 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
January 1, 2011
Baler
Durham Region is proposing to purchase a higher throughput single ram baler to handle the increased plastics volumes and to enable them to increase the throughput of the MRF, positioning them as a potential regional MRF in a more optimized blue box system. Because of aggressive marketing campaigns and the addition of mixed plastics to their collection, Durham has increased their total plastics recovery by 28.2% between 2012 and 2013 and expects further increases this quarter as the result of their active participation in the Regional GTA Plastics Campaign (CIF Project 834.4).
| Documents | Final Report: Durham Region MRF Baler |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Operations | Post-Collection | |
October 4, 2017
Bancroft 2011 REOI Submission Review
In 2011, the CIF hired Earth’s Edge (now Redi Recycling) to review an REOI submission for the Town of Bancroft (Bancroft). The work included reviewing the application with Bancroft, performing a site visit, completing CIF documentation and recommending next steps for the REOI request.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Project Support | |
October 31, 2011
Bancroft Depot Upgrades - Compactors
Depot infrastructure upgrades, signage and installation of two stationary compactors to replace 40 yd. roll-off bins at Dungannon depot to reduce shipping costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Dungannon Waste Disposal Site Upgrades |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | Depots | |
April 26, 2019
Barrie Operational and Financial Impact of EPR Policy Changes
This project aims to provide the City of Barrie with an understanding of what the a-BBPP and the broader move towards IPR means for them and their residents from a financial and operational sense.
| Documents | Synopsis IPR Transitional Support Model |
| Blog Post | August 23, 2019: The City of Barrie’s Scenario Impact Analysis in Preparation for Transition |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Transition | |
December 20, 2019
Beaumen Waste Management Systems MRF Upgrade
Beaumen Waste Management has proposed a major upgrade to modernize its Renfrew MRF. The upgrade is expected to allow Beaumen to reduce its operating cost and pricing to local customers. The project has the broad support of local municipalities. The CIF has committed $50,000 representing less than 10% of project costs in support of this joint municipal/private sector regionalization effort. The deal is expected to have a payback of under 1 year and will provide reduced pricing for local municipalities over a 5 year period.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
September 24, 2017
Benchmarking and Assessing Program Performance Training Course
This project involves development and delivery of a one day course on the use of an assessment framework to identify the areas of your Blue Box programming which will provide the greatest pay back from a program improvement investment.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Training | |
December 31, 2013
Best Practices in EPS Management
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) has remained a challenge to manage in the blue box for over 30 yrs. The CIF has funded a number of projects to test centralized and decentralized processing options. This project will build on these past efforts to accurately compare the collection and processing costs and pros/cons of the various options so that stakeholders can make informed program planning decisions. The cost of the work is expected to be under $10,000.
| Documents | Final Report: Processing of Expanded Polystyrene in Accordance with CPIA Recommendations |
| Blog Post | July 13, 2018: CIF Pilot Project Confirms Expanded Polystyrene Recycling Possible but Challenging |
| Related Projects | Project #1035 Project #130 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | Material Separation | |
July 26, 2014
Best Practices Review of CIF Completed Projects
The CIF has contracted the University of York to complete a review of its over 500 completed projects to determine what additional better practices, trends and other learnings may be gleaned from the Fund;s efforts over the past seven years of operations. The project has an upset limit of approximately $40,000 and is funded solely by the CIF.
| Documents | Final Report: Review of CIF Funded Projects and Key Learnings |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Blue Box Resources | |
July 1, 2017
Better Practices for Signage Guide
In 2011, the CIF hired Robins Environmental & Design to produce a generic “Better Practices for Signage Guide” for depots and public spaces.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | Project Support | |
January 31, 2012
Better Practices in Open Space Recycling
This project involved evaluating the results of Project 159 to determine if any Best Practices in open space recycling were identifiable and proven through quantitative analysis. The resulting report summarizes identified better practices for consideration in developing open space recycling programs.
Discusses four best practices for public space: clear and consistent signage, placement of the recycling bins Design of the recycling and communication with park staff, vendors and collection crews. Case studies are provided. Discusses the importance of pre and post monitoring.
| Documents | Final Report: Best Practices Review |
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| Related Projects | Project #159 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
October 6, 2009
Blue Box Governance Review
CIF managed BB program; recommended options to enhance program at request of the Town.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Program Review and Program Development Evaluation |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2010
Blue Box Harmonization Initiative
In 2014 West Elgin partnered with the City of London for the processing of their recyclables at a regional facility as recommended in the 2012 MIPC Study. As an extension of this, West Elgin will harmonize its curbside collection program with the others in southwestern Ontario who are taking their materials to London’s regional facility. Harmonization efforts include the expansion of West Elgin’s list of targeted materials, issuing of large curbside containers to its residents to accommodate the additional recyclables, and a promotion & education campaign to inform residents of the changes.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipality of West Elgin - West Elgin Blue Box Harmonization Initiative |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Post-Collection | Regional Cooperation | |
December 14, 2015
Blue Box Litter Auditing and Lid Testing
Working with Durham Region, the CIF is auditing litter and moisture related to open blue boxes to measure the effectiveness (cost and impact) of a recycled-tire crumb rubber blue box lid. This study will measure litter, monitor moisture in “lidded” and “unlidded” boxes, assess impact on collection timing, develop a value for litter collection costs, and survey residents for utility and feedback.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box Litter Auditing and Lid Testing |
| Blog Post | January 14, 2021: Part I. Put a lid on it: Blue box litter abatement January 21, 2021: Part II. Put a lid on it: Keep moisture out January 28, 2021: Part III. Put a lid on it: Collection Costs |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | |
November 12, 2021
Blue Box Material Diversion vs Cost Benefit Analysis
This study compares the cost to collect and process various materials to provide guidance to municipalities about the logical order in which materials should be added to their programs to achieve the best diversion for cost profile for their program.
| Documents | Final Report: Diversion vs. Net Cost Analysis for The Ontario Blue Box System |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | |
February 8, 2015
Blue Box Plastics Recycling Enhancement Initiative RFP – Distribution
In order to obtain the highest quality and most viable proposals, the Emerald Group was engaged to research, identify and distribute the Blue Box Plastics Recycling Enhancement Initiative RFP, developed under CIF #127, to potential proponents.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #127 |
| Categories | End Markets | MRF | Post-Collection | Project Support | |
January 1, 2012
Blue Box Plastics Recycling Enhancement Initiative RFP – Due Diligence
Environmental Business Consultants hired to conduct financial due diligence reviews on vendors selected through the “Blue Box Plastics Recycling Enhancement Initiative” RFP (CIF #127).
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #127 |
| Categories | End Markets | MRF | Post-Collection | Project Support | |
June 1, 2009
Blue Box Producer Calculator
CIF developed a Blue Box Producer Calculator to help municipalities determine their producer status and whether they have reporting and management obligations.
RPRA originally approved the calculator for use by municipalities for the reporting periods from 2021 (2020 data) to 2024 (2023 data). However, RPRA will now allow municipalities to use the CIF calculator for reporting in 2025 (2024 data) and 2026 (2025 data). Municipalities can also use the extended guidance document and supply tracking tool that CIF developed to assist in gathering supply data.
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| Related Projects | Extended Guidance for Producer Obligations & Tracking Tools |
| Categories | Producer Obligations | Transition | |
November 30, 2023
Blue Box Program Communications Relaunch
EWSWA will be re-launching its P&E efforts with the goal to increase blue box capture rates by 10% over a 2 year period. The relaunch will include redesigned P&E materials, the development of an updated website including the use of social media and marketing tools, upgrading and developing school curriculum materials and ongoing monitoring to evaluate the effectiveness of the P&E efforts.
| Documents | Final Report: Communications Re-Launch |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
December 31, 2014
Blue Box Promotions
North Bay is taking advantage of the 20th year celebrations of its blue box program to promote and reinforce the program through a series of radio ads and other activities consistent with its communications plan.
| Documents | Final Report: North Bay's Blue Box Education and Promotion Project |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
December 1, 2011
Blue Box Recycling Plan Workshops
Project to organize and deliver up to 10, one-day workshops to present and demonstrate the CIF Recycling Plan Guideline and Template materials developed under CIF Project #215. Workshops were held in Huntsville, Kingston, Hockley Valley, Dryden, Barrie, Sudbury, Ottawa and London.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Training | |
August 31, 2010
Blue Box Transfer Station
Construct transfer facility for BB materials to allow for transportation to processing facility.
| Documents | Final Report: Transfer Station Implementation |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Transportation | |
January 23, 2014
Blue Box Transfer Station Upgrades
Upgrades to transfer facility to allow for loading into a compaction trailer.
| Documents | Final Report: Kenora Transfer Station Upgrades |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
September 16, 2011
Blue Box Transition Backgrounder
CIF produced a customizable tool to assist municipal staff in communicating to staff, elected officials, and the general public, what is happening with regards to the transition of Ontario's blue box program to a producer responsibility framework.
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| Categories | Communication/Education | Transition | |
December 16, 2022
Bluewater Efficiency Study
AET and Jacques Whitford to review collection efficiency of Bluewater Recycling Association’s change to automated single stream collection.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Collection Operations Review |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #135 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Single/Dual Stream | |
January 1, 2010
Bluewater Recycling Association – MRF Performance Study
A MRF performance study to determine the processing efficiency of the facility followed by an equipment maintenance study to cross reference operational performance with maintenance records to verify upkeep, repair and replacement efforts needed to meet current and future needs.
| Documents | Final Report: Material Recovery Facility Mass Balance and Efficiency Study |
| Blog Post | April 4, 2018: BRA Addresses Paper Quality Issues to Protect End Markets |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | MRF | |
March 31, 2018
Bollegraaf Film Grabber
Install a Bollegraaf mechanical film grabber in the MRF.
| Documents | Final Report: Review of the City of Hamilton Film Grabber System |
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| Categories | Innovation | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
March 31, 2011
Bonnechere Valley Conversion to Rear Bin Packer Collection Truck
Conversion of current depot operations from open top rolloff collection to 8yd bins collected by a rear loading compactor truck. The conversion is expected to cost approx. $70,000 and will receive 47% funding from CIF with a payback of approx. 8 years.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box Depot Collection - Front End Bin Implementation |
| Blog Post | August 26, 2016: Knock Off the Roll Offs |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | Depots | |
August 30, 2017
Bonnechere Valley Cooperative Initiative
This project explores the rationale for forming of a waste diversion cooperative amongst a group of municipalities to reduce costs, improve their best practice performance and consolidate elements of their individual programs through joint program management. The project will develop a road map and cost analysis for program transition at an estimated cost of $10,000. Initial estimates place the potential gross savings at over $150,000/yr.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipal Waste Management Shared Services Business Case Analysis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #843 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
May 19, 2015
British Columbia EPR Experience in Recycling of Packaging & Paper
This project sought to describe British Columbia's local government authorities’ experience with implementation of producer responsibility for residential packaging and paper products (PPP).
| Documents | Report |
| Presentation | ORW October 2020 - Panel 2 - The British Columbia EPR Experience | PDF slides |
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| Categories | Transition | |
December 1, 2020
Budget Priorities for WRPs and RFP Support
In 2012, WDO (now RPRA) directed the CIF to take action to improve municipal compliance with the identified best practices found in the WDO Datacall at the time. The CIF needed to develop a plan to allocate $100,000 in support of municipal efforts to develop Waste Recycling Plans (WRP) and standardized Request for Proposals (RFP) for Blue Box services procurements. With limited funding available, it was important to identify an appropriate list of candidates and prioritize.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #701 Project #702 Project #703 Project #704 Project #705 Project #706 Project #708 Project #709 Project #710 Project #712 |
| Categories | Planning | Procurement | Project Support | |
April 30, 2012
Building Code & Design Standards for Multi-residential
Develop standards to store and collect recyclables in MR buildings to assist municipalities and property owners to reach the province’s waste diversion targets; assess the Ontario Building Code (OBC) to identify provision to change to implement the standards; recommend new measures for BB recyclables management system in MR buildings under the LEED certification process.
| Documents | Part 1: Municipal Design Standards Part 2: LEED Part 3: Ontario Building Code Change Recommendations OBC Change Form |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | Planning | |
September 3, 2014
Business Case – Curbside Waste Diversion Policy Alternatives
As part of the development of the next collection contract/RFP, this project seeks to develop a business case for different collection options intended to increase waste diversion rates for the City of Ottawa’s curbside Blue Box program.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Procurement | |
March 10, 2022
Carling Transfer Stations Solar Compactors Project
This project involves the installation of two solar powered compactors each at two of Carling Township’s transfer stations to improve hauling efficiencies. The compactors are solar powered and capable of 110V back up for periods where insufficient sunlight is available to meet load demand. Installation of compactors at these two sites is expected to reduce hauling costs by over $30,000/year with a project payback of under 3 years is expected.
| Documents | Final Report: Carling Transfer Station Solar Powered Recycling Compaction Container Project |
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| Categories | Compactors | Innovation | |
April 19, 2013
Cart Program Residue Management Plan & Toolkit
Temiskaming Shores is implementing an enhanced residue management strategy. The P&E tactics will remind residents of the new municipal by-law which permits the contractor to leave behind overly contaminated carts and City staff to levy fines against repeat offenders.
| Documents | Final Report: Cart Program Residue Management Plan & Toolkit |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contamination | |
October 2, 2018
Carts for Automated Collection
The Township of Southgate has automatic cart collection for curbside using 240 litre carts. CIF funding will be used to add households to program, and for larger families and multi-res to use 360 litre in place of 240 litre to increase capacity to capture blue box materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Supply Curbside Collection Containers |
| Blog Post | November 14, 2017: Southgate does more with less |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
August 5, 2011
Central Frontenac Depot Upgrades
Increase depot storage capacity from 16-yd bins to 18 top load 40-yd bins, so as to reduce haulage costs by reducing the number of annual collections required. Goal to reduce hauling costs for recyclables by investing in 18 top loading 40 yd3 roll-off containers. Resulted in 53% reduction in annual hauls. Other benefits are that material is more easily contained and staff spends less time cleaning up wind- blown material.
| Documents | Final Report: Township of Central Frontenac Depot Upgrades |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
September 8, 2015
Change Management Planning Survey
CIF in partnership with AMO’s waste policy group, M3RC, developed a survey to assist individual communities in identifying their needs and planning for transition.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Transition | |
May 26, 2022
CIF Application Support: York Region
In 2011, the CIF hired HDR Inc. to assist the Regional Municipality of York (York) with completing funding applications for two projects, including expansion of the Garfield Wright MRF tip floor and upgrades to the Georgina Transfer Station.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Project Support | |
December 31, 2011
CIF Ontario Price Sheet
The CIF has funded the development of the CIF Ontario Price Sheet from 2014 to present day.
The Price Sheet is a monthly publication that provides pricing trends for various post-consumer recyclable commodities produced by Ontario municipalities. It was produced by Reclay StewardEdge Inc. from 2014 – 2018, and is now produced by EcoCompass Inc. (2019). For more information contact Neil Menezes at nmenezes@ecocompass.ca.
| Documents | CIF Ontario Price Sheet |
| Blogs/ Bulletins Post | December 19, 2023 - Status Update: End of the CIF Price Sheet |
| Related Projects | Project #779 Project #788 Project #1172 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
December 31, 2015
CIF Price Sheet Analysis
As Ontario municipalities begin to transition in July 2023, there is a real risk that the number of contributing municipalities will decline and could compromise the production of the Price Sheet. The CIF undertook an analysis of the CIF Ontario Price Sheet (CIF #1172) at an approximate cost of $5,750 that will enable the CIF to understand how the CIF Ontario Price Sheet has historically tracked against two other indices used in the market from 2019 to 2022. Municipalities will then be able to assess how these indices could replace the CIF Price Sheet.
| Documents | Deliverable: CIF Price Sheet Alternative Analysis CIF Ontario Price Sheet |
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| Related Projects | Project #779 Project #788 Project #869 |
| Categories | End Markets | Transition | |
June 21, 2023
CIF Price Sheet Sensitivity Analysis
CIF Price Sheet Sensitivity Analysis (#779) examined the accuracy of the CIF Price Sheet in reflecting the rapidly changing value of fibres as a result of implementation of the China Sword program in the spring of 2018. RSE was contracted to review the methodology for determining individual material values and the resulting composite indices published in the CIF Price Sheet and compared the results with other known indices.
| Documents | Report: CIF Price Sheet Commodity Price Trends CIF Ontario Price Sheet |
| Blog Post | February 14, 2019: The CIF Price Sheet…how does it stack up to other Indices? |
| Related Projects | Project #869 Project #788 Project #1172 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
February 11, 2019
CIF Project Support
The CIF hired The Emerald Group to provide general support on CIF projects.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Project Support | |
September 16, 2011
CIF REOI Uptake Survey
Genivar Consultants LP retained to conduct a brief telephone survey following the release of the “Request for Expressions of Interest (REOI) CIF Funding for Priority Projects” on February 1, 2010. The purpose of the survey was to assess the degree of success in informing municipalities of this latest funding mechanism and to determine preliminary uptake for the CIF 2010 REOI.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Project Support | |
January 1, 2011
CIF Windup Plan Development
Development of a windup plan for the CIF at RPRA’s request and in accordance with the Minister’s direction to wind up the Blue Box Program Plan. The total cost of development of the draft plan and associated consultation process is estimated to be $35,000 plus tax.
| Documents | CIF Windup Plan (December 2020) |
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| Categories | Project Support | |
December 16, 2020
City of Windsor Public Space Recycling Program
Essex Windsor Solid Waste Authority partnered with the City of Windsor to establish a containers only recycling program in three separate public spaces throughout the city. Project implementation costs are estimated to be approximately $187,000. CIF funding of almost $75,000 (40% funding) was provided for this project with an expected payback of approximately 5 years.
Phase 1
Tested in ground storage bin (Alpha) placement and signage design. Focused on “beverage containers only” signage and advertised on city trail maps. The cost to purchase and install in ground was $1,593 per bin and ~$121/bin to service annually. Capture rate achieved is 68% with a contamination rate of 28%. Encountered problems with labels not adhering to bins.
Phase 2
Complete twinning of recycling bins with garbage bins and improved signage, labelling on bins. Large metal signs placed at park entrances and key areas and painted large Mobius Loops on the front and back of every in-ground bin (cheaper than stickers). Contamination was reduced to 12% and the capture of targeted material increased by 75%. saved the city in collection costs and created new revenue.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling: Phase 1 Public Space Recycling: Phase 2 |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Operations | Public Spaces | |
March 12, 2015
Clear Bag Implementation P&E
The Town of Kearny is switching to a clear bags policy for incoming garbage to the municipal waste management site. This project will provide funding to share in the cost of implementing the P&E described in the new CIF Clear Bag toolkit and builds on the success of neighbouring Township McMurrich Monteith. P&E to include: pre-launch mail-outs, signage for depot, and clear bag tool kit for distribution during soft launch. Diversion is anticipated to increase significantly following the implementation of the clear bags best practice.
| Documents | Final Report: Clear Bag Policy Promotion & Education |
| Blog Post | February 24, 2017: Clear Bags for Garbage Increase Waste Diversion at Town of Kearney |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Collection | Policy | |
December 4, 2016
Clear Bag Implementation Toolkit: The Ontario Experience
The intent of this initiative is to deliver a comprehensive tool designed to provide municipal councilors and staff with key information, case studies and an implementation road map prior to approval of a clear bag program.
| Documents | Final Report: Clear Bag Garbage Program Implementation Toolkit: A municipal step-by-step guide |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Collection | Collection Containers | Policy | |
November 3, 2015
Collection & Processing Decision Tree
This project will produce a draft decision tree which will serve as a guide in the development of a municipal decision tree leading toward recycling collection & processing efficiency gains.
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
April 17, 2012
Collection Contamination Analysis
This study examines the relative costs to manage Blue Box contamination at the curb using driver labour versus at the MRF using sorter labour.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Contamination Study Summary of Findings |
| Blog Post | September 6, 2018: CIF Explores Curbside Contamination Reduction in Barrie |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contamination | |
October 3, 2018
Collection Cost Model Analysis
The CIF has made development of cost allocation models a priority to assist municipalities in the accurate development of information for planning purposes. This project is intended to ‘ground truth’ a model developed by CIF for determination of collection costs which represents the majority of Blue Box operating costs. The project is expected to cost under $,5000 to complete.
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Models | |
December 31, 2016
Collection RFP Development
Consulting support to develop RFP for recycling collection and processing services for the Township.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Collection RFP RFP: Garbage and Recycling Collection |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | |
January 1, 2012
Collection Savings Initiative
Prince Township will change over to automated curbside collection to achieve lower costs, higher diversion and improved service levels. The changeover will include the provision of recycling carts to program participants and a promotion & education campaign to inform residents of the changes. The changes to Prince Township’s program will harmonize its services with Sault Ste Marie’s. The harmonization of the programs will allow for the potential amalgamation of service contracts between the two municipalities and possibly additional savings for Prince Township.
| Documents | Final Report: Prince Township - Collection Savings Initiative |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Collection Containers | |
December 31, 2015
Collection/Processing Contract Evaluation and MRF Impact Analysis
This project seeks to support the City of Cornwall with their recyclable material collection process and MRF processing by identifying the gaps and opportunities for improvement. This includes applicable activities and contract language required to provide efficient and effective operations by a contractor(s). This project will also assist the City to ensure their operations are well positioned for transition to full producer responsibility.
| Documents | Synopsis RFP: Collection, Processing and Marketing of Recyclable Material and Collection of Curbside Waste Excel: Contract Compliance Spreadsheet |
| Blog Post | July 19, 2019: City of Cornwall Shows It’s Possible to Establish a Beneficial Contract, Even in Uncertain Times |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | MRF | Procurement | |
November 23, 2020
Committee Report Templates for Small Municipalities
The CIF was asked to develop a series of sample committee reports, scoped for use by small and rural municipalities, explaining the anticipated transition of the Blue Box program to an individual producer responsibility system, and providing an update on the current situation once the province announces its plans later in 2019.
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| Categories | Best Practices | Transition | |
April 3, 2021
Communication Evaluation
An assessment of the best practices the program compared to the “Rural Collection – South” group of municipalities.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box Recycling Program Best Practice Assessment |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
January 27, 2010
Community Cooperation Letter for Transition
The CIF, in partnership with M3RC, prepared a letter for use by local communities to assist in communicating to various blue box program stakeholders (e.g., producer responsibility organizations, Reverse Logistics Group and their contractors) expectations for the effective management of key program service delivery details. The letter was developed by Siskinds LLP and vetted through a municipal steering committee consisting of members of the CIF Contracts & Fair Compensation Subcommittee.
The letter can be modified to fit local community circumstances and needs. The letter can be sent in email format to stakeholders and does not require a signature or formal acknowledgement. Rather, it is designed to provide community expectations in writing to stakeholders to gain their good faith cooperation in coordinating important program service delivery details under a blue box producer responsibility framework.
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| Related Projects | Municipal By-Law Considerations for Transition |
| Categories | Policy | Transition | |
May 9, 2024
Community Waste Audit Guideline
Between July 2023 and December 2025, all municipalities in Ontario will be transitioning blue box programs to producers and as a result will have less information on whether recycling efforts are improving within their individual communities. The Municipal Datacall will also be coming to an end and municipal governments will lose the insight provided by this program.
CIF developed a guidance document to provide communities across Ontario with direction for planning and executing composition audits of the waste, organics and litter streams. The guide identifies audit sources including waste from single-family homes, multi residential units, depots, and business improvement areas (BIAs)/ non-eligible sources. The approaches and considerations outlined in the guide aim to allow communities to easily compare or consolidate audit data across the province.
Communities are encouraged to utilize the Waste Audit Material Categories to allow for this comparison of data.
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| Categories | Best Practices | Composition Studies | Transition | |
May 13, 2024
Compaction Bins for Municipal Transfer Station
Install compaction bins to collect recyclables at the drop off depot. Compaction bins will reduce number of hauls to the transfer facility and significantly reduce the transportation costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Compaction Bins for Municipal Transfer Station |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
October 22, 2013
Compaction Trailer
To facilitate transfer operations between Kenora, Dryden and municipalities that transfer Blue Box materials through the Dryden operation, Kenora has proposed purchase of an additional 110 yd³ compaction trailer with the same configuration as the two existing trailers currently serving that route. The additional trailer will eliminate deadhead runs with empty trailers back and forth between Kenora and Dryden and will save an estimated $17,633 annually.
| Documents | Final Report: Compaction Highway Trailer |
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| Related Projects | Project #438 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
March 31, 2016
Compaction Trailer & Highway Tractor
Red Lake is proposing to purchase a 110 yd³ trailer with an internal, hydraulically operated compactor unit and to pay for 33% of the costs of a highway tractor to facilitate transfer of Blue Box materials from Red Lake to Winnipeg. The highway tractor will be used for other municipal duties including garbage and aggregate hauling for the balance of the time.
| Documents | Final Report: Implementation of Municipally Hauled Recyclables to Winnipeg, Manitoba at Balmertown Waste Disposal Site |
| Blog Post | April 12, 2016: Red Lake’s Recycling Transport Upgrades |
| Related Projects | Project #921 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
March 21, 2016
Compactor Cost Savings
Purchase of compaction unit for mixed containers at Tri-R Facility (Armour Township, Town of Burks Falls, & Ryerson Township). Compaction will improve transfer haul cost effectiveness and other operational efficiencies.
| Documents | Final Report: Compactor Cost Savings |
| Blog Post | March 22, 2018: Armour Township Stays Proactive Amidst Changing Conditions |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
February 28, 2018
Compactor Units & Bins
Fort Frances proposes the installation of two compaction units and the purchase of 4 forty cubic yard compactor bins to accommodate their single stream blue box materials for shipment to the MRF in Winnipeg. This arrangement will also simplify depot and transfer operations, avoiding issues with outside storage of blue box materials in open bins. CIF will contribute $115,665 or 44% of the revised project cost of $260,800.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycle Depot and Transfer Station Upgrades |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
September 24, 2018
Comparative Analysis of Materials Targeted Under SO aBBPP
Under Stewardship Ontario’s proposed amendments to the BBPP, they offered a list of targeted materials that differs materially from those commonly collected by municipalities. This study looked at the possible impact on adoption of the aBBPP on municipal programs and diversion levels.
| Documents | Final Report: Review of Targeted PPP List in Stewardship Ontario's Draft Amended Blue Box Program Plan |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Transition | |
May 17, 2018
Comparative Analysis of Single and Two Stream Program Performance
The CIF has received inquiries from numerous municipalities over the past three years about the applicability of single stream vs. two stream collection systems. This study is intended to gather up to date information on the application, pros, cons and relative costs of the two systems for consideration by municipalities.
| Documents | Final Report: An Assessment of Single and Dual Stream Recycling |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Collection | Policy | Single/Dual Stream | |
February 8, 2013
Complimentary Depot Analysis Toolkit
The County of Wellington is developing two toolkits to support decision making with respect to complimentary blue box depot services.
| Documents | Final Report: Behaviors surrounding waste drop off sites Sample Size Calculator |
| Blog Post | December 7, 2018: Get help with stats: New CIF tool and example from Wellington County |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Depots | |
May 12, 2019
Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Strategy - Thunder Bay
| Documents | Final Report: Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Strategy |
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| Related Projects | Project #700 Project #701 Project #703 Project #704 Project #705 Project #706 Project #708 Project #709 Project #710 Project #712 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Procurement | |
December 12, 2014
Contingency Planning for Convenience Depot Sites Workshop
A planning workshop, guidance document, decision tree and costing tool were developed to assist communities in determining whether to continue to provide blue box services at convenience depot sites post transition, if they are no longer receiving compensation from Producer Responsibility Organizations. The resources associated with this project also helped determine the financial and service implications of the decision, staff prepare recommendations for Council and plans for the implementation of the final decision including procurement (if services are continued), communications plans and cost implications of the decision.
Workshops were held on October 24, November 8 and 9, 2023.
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November 22, 2023
Contract Database Migration and Redesign
In 2011, the CIF retained the services of MacMillan Marketing Group to revamp the CIF Contract Database. The work included relocating the database to a new server and redesigning the appearance.
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| Categories | Contracts | Project Support | |
August 31, 2011
Contract Management Course
This project involves development and delivery of a one day course on contract management for municipal staff dealing with contracts. The course is an abridged version of the 2 day contract management course developed under the E&E fund and was consolidated based on feedback received from municipal staff. The cost for development was approximately $20,000.
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Training | |
December 31, 2013
Contract Management Essentials for Now & the Future Course
As the nature of the Blue Box program plan and delivery evolve, the contract management essentials course provides the foundation in the development of an effective contract management plan for an existing contract. The course also provides an understanding of what may be expected as a contract manager under a steward organization.
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Training | |
November 29, 2018
Contract Management Support
This project seeks to provide contract management support to Drummond-North Elmsley as they transition to a dual stream program.
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| Blog Post | August 30, 2018: Two Stream Collection as a Solution to Troublesome Fiber Markets March 1, 2019: Performance impacts: Changing to two stream collection February 1, 2019: Big program change is possible! |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Single/Dual Stream | |
March 14, 2021
Contract Support Services
A project to assist Brant County with drafting a new collection/processing RFP.
| Documents | Synopsis Final Report: 2017 Collection Contract Preparation |
| Blog Post | July 21, 2017: Brant County RFP Success Story |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Procurement | |
May 29, 2017
Conversion of BASWRA MRF to a Transfer Station
This project involves an analysis of the risk and potential benefits of converting BASWRA’s MRF into a transfer station followed up by implementation of this option if it proves to be viable. The project is expected to cost up to $1,230,000 and will have a payback of between 3 to 8 years. The CIF will contribute up to $603,000 or 49% of project costs subject to approval of the recommended option.
| Documents | Final Report: Operations Review |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Planning | Post-Collection | |
September 12, 2018
Conversion of Depots to Front End Load Service
Site upgrades, signage and purchase of 8 yd. FEL bins to replace 40 yd. roll-off bins at 9 municipal depots to reduce shipping costs. FEL vehicles compact materials producing more tonnes per load and fewer loads shipped to the MRF.
| Documents | Final Report: Roll off to Front End Bin Service Implementation |
| Blog Post | September 28, 2018: Front End Loading Systems Again Demonstrate Cost Efficient Collection |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
September 10, 2018
Conversion to Rear Bin Packer Collection Truck
Conversion of current depot operations from open top rolloff collection to 8yd bins collected by a rear loading compactor truck. The conversion is expected to cost approx. $67,000 and will receive 51% funding from CIF with a payback of under 6 years.
| Documents | Final Report: Conversion to Rear Bin Packer Collection |
| Blog Post | August 26, 2016: Knock Off the Roll Offs |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
June 6, 2016
Convert Depots to Front End Load (FEL) Service
Site upgrades, signage and purchase of 8 yd. FEL bins to replace 40 yd. roll-off bins at 3 municipal depots to reduce shipping costs. FEL vehicles compact materials producing more tonnes per load and fewer loads shipped to the MRF.
| Documents | Final Report: Depot to Front End Bin Service Implementation |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
June 9, 2019
Cooperative Bulk Container Purchase Tender
A Bulk Container Purchasing Tender to secure pricing for Blue Boxes and Carts at a discounted rate for Ontario recycling programs by coordinating the buying efforts of municipalities across Ontario is part of an ongoing initiative by CIF .
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| Related Projects | Project #478 Project #724.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
December 31, 2015
Cooperative Container Procurement Program
A cooperative procurement venture to secure high quality Blue Boxes, Recycling Carts and Bags at competitive rates for municipalities, First Nation entities and other authorities charged with the responsibility of delivering Ontario’s residential Blue Box program.
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| Related Projects | Project #724 Project #724.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
April 25, 2019
Cooperative Container Subsidy Program
To encourage greater participation in the Cooperative Container Procurement Program (Project #478), a 5% reimbursement is provided on a first-come-first-serve basis on container purchases made through the CCPP up to a set annual limit. For each container type, a portion of the subsidy is reserved for programs with 5,000 households or fewer. The subsidy is meant to encourage collective purchasing and is based on the projected avoided costs of having each municipality complete their own procurement process.
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| Related Projects | Project #478 Project #724 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
September 21, 2021
Cooperative Multi-Municipal Recycling Communications Program Implementation
Implementation of a cooperative promotion and education program that was recommended in CIF Project #102 report. Project includes the development of a common communications plan and promotion material.
| Documents | Final Report: Development of Waste Management Communications |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | Regional Cooperation | |
January 30, 2013
Cooperative Recycling Haulage
A co-operative project between the Cities of Kenora and Dryden. The project is supporting the purchase of a highway tractor for Kenora to haul the recycling compaction trailers from Kenora and Dryden to the processor in Winnipeg. The project is also supporting the upgrade to Dryden’s compaction trailer to be compatible with Kenora’s transfer facility and new compaction trailer. An agreement will be signed between Kenora and Dryden for recycling material haulage services which will result in cost savings for both Kenora and Dryden.
| Documents | Final Report: Cooperative Recycling Haulage |
| Blog Post | August 8, 2016: Two’s Company, But Three … Makes for More Efficient Recycling! |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | Regional Cooperation | |
March 15, 2012
Cooperative Recycling Plan
Developed cooperative recycling plan for 6 rural municipalities surrounding City of Thunder Bay (Townships of Gilles, O’Connor, Oliver-Paipoonge, Neebing, Conmee & Shuniah).
| Documents | Final Report |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Regional Cooperation | |
June 30, 2009
Coordination of School Curriculum Development Initiative
In 2011, the CIF contracted Trow Associates to coordinate a Blue Box school curriculum working group on behalf of the CIF. Tasks included coordinating meetings, developing agendas, tracking minutes and interviewing stakeholders.
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| Categories | Communication/Education | Project Support | |
December 31, 2011
Cornwall MRF Evaluation
An evaluation study to provide the City of Cornwall information and options for the redevelopment of its MRF and its potential role in an eastern Ontario blue box processing context.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Evaluation and Optimization Study |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Valuation | |
April 2, 2012
Cost Allocation Field Test
The goal of this project is to field test existing CIF costing tools to determine program costs and then design internal accounting controls required for municipalities to actively track and report these costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Small Municipality Full Cost Accounting Toolkit Small Municipality Full Cost Accounting Toolkit |
| Blog Post | May 10, 2019: CIF launches new toolkit that simplifies full cost accounting for Ontario recycling programs |
| Related Projects | This project was proceeded by #988 EPR Transitional Support – Small Municipal Cost Models |
| Categories | Best Practices | Models | Planning | Regional Cooperation | Transition | |
May 12, 2019
Covered Bins Evaluation
Testing of a new roll-off container bin cover system to determine weight impacts of moisture laden fiber products and snow/ice content in depot collected materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Evaluation of Roll-Off Bin Covers |
| Blog Post | February 21, 2020: Processing cost savings with covered bins |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contamination | Depots | |
May 5, 2020
Creating & Maintaining a Greener Black-River Matheson
Project designed to increase number of recycling depots in BRM from 1 to 3 & incorporate recycling in all municipal operations (i.e. facilities, parks and picnic areas). Includes a promotion and education element.
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| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | Depots | Public Spaces | |
October 15, 2013
Curbside Audits Trend Analysis
The objective of this project is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of Toronto’s waste composition audit data to identify material trends over the years. This project also aims to measure the impact of light-weighting on the City’s diversion rate, as the weight of waste continues to decline while the volume of waste increases.
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
January 21, 2018
Curbside Automated Cart Collection
This project involves the conversion of Guelph’s bag based collection to a three stream bi-weekly blue box auto cart system at an estimated project cost of almost $11.6 million. CIF funding of approximately $1.3 million or 49% of eligible blue box related costs has been approved. Anticipated savings on the blue box related proportion of the system costs is expected to be over $350,000/year when full implemented. Implementation is expected to take several years.
| Documents | Final Report: Guelph Automated Waste Cart Collection System |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
July 11, 2015
Curbside Debagging of Blue Bags Pilot
A pilot study at the County of Dufferin to evaluate the cost and amount of effort required to debag bagged curbside recyclables. The results of the study will help determine whether or not bagged recyclables should be debagged at the curb or at the MRF. Included in the project is an evaluation of debagging logistics at the curb, if litter becomes an issue after debagging, and what the extra effort and cost would be for the collector to debag at the curb (through a time and motion study).
| Documents | Final Report: Managing Bagged Material Curbside vs. MRF |
| Blog Post | October 22, 2020: The bagged recyclables dilemma |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Material Separation | |
October 7, 2020
Curbside Recycling Implementation and Material Transfer
Implement an automated curbside collection in Cochrane, expand the recycling program to accept more materials and transfer the recyclables to the Timmins regional transfer facility.
| Documents | Final Report: Curbside Recycling Implementation |
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| Related Projects | Project #616.12 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Collection Containers | Policy | |
December 20, 2015
Curbside Single-Family Audits, MRF Commodity Bale & Residue Audits and MRF Composite Paper Packaging (CPP) Observations
In the spring of 2012 the KRC secured funds from SO to co-fund a series of 4 season curbside single-family waste composition audits in cooperation with selected municipalities. The project also included funding from SO to complete a series of MRF bale and residue audits and analysis of composite paper packaging fate in MRFs to provide both stewards and municipalities with up to date compositional information from across Ontario.
| Documents | Final Report: 2012/2013 Single Family Residential Curbside Audits |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
June 12, 2014
Database of Processors & Service Availability Gaps for Non-Eligible Source BB Materials
Effective January 1, 2026, producers will not be involved in collecting and processing blue box material from Non-Eligible Sources (NES), as the Blue Box Regulation does not require them to collect from these sources. Communities that want to continue providing collection service to NES will need to ensure that blue box processing and/or transfer facilities are available within a reasonable driving distance.
To assist communities in locating accessible blue box processing and transfer facilities for NES blue box materials, CIF developed:
- A database of private and public blue box processing and transfer facilities across Ontario (and processing facilities near the Ontario border).
- A report that summarizes the research results and describes the gaps and barriers for NES blue box material service availability.
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| Categories | Non-Eligible Sources | Post-Collection | Transition | |
October 10, 2024
Decision Tree Tool
Development of a decision tree for blue box transfer stations.
| Documents | Final Report: Transfer of Blue Box Recyclable Materials: Factors Affecting Decision Making |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Depots | Post-Collection | |
January 1, 2011
Defining “Recycling”
Regulatory research to support transition of the Blue Box program in Ontario.
| Documents | Final Report: Measuring Recycling in Ontario |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Transition | |
September 20, 2017
Definition of Inbound Contamination & Impact Analysis
This study will help to develop a better understanding of what constitutes contamination and seek to develop a fair compensation mechanism for defined changes to contamination levels. This information is expected to aid municipalities in effective contract development and management and communicating a consistent, evidence-based response to compensation requests from service providers.
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| Categories | Best Practices | Contamination | Procurement | |
April 27, 2023
Delivery of Large Curbside Containers and P&E Campaign
Support for the City of Brantford for the distribution and P&E efforts for the new large curbside blue boxes approved under project 534.3.
| Documents | Final Report: New Containers to Capture New Materials |
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| Related Projects | Project #534.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Collection Containers | Communication/Education | |
July 9, 2014
Depot Budget and Master Tool
CIF developed a depot summary operations costing tool to help municipalities identify detailed operating costs and capital expenditures at each blue box depot. The Master Summary Costing tool enables municipalities to combine the individual depot costs into a single overall cost.
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October 31, 2024
Depot Budget Cost Analysis Tool
CIF developed a depot costing tool to help municipalities identify detailed operating costs and capital expenditures at each blue box depot and combine the individual depot costs into a single overall cost. This tool is paired with a sample filled in for a fictitious depot. This tool could be used by municipalities to assist with understanding the true blue box costs at depots to support transition related decisions.
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April 19, 2024
Depot Cost Analysis, Phases 1-3
As a follow up to the depot cost analysis work undertaken under CIF Project #758, Peel Region requested that CIF complete an ABC study of their depot operations to ground truth the previous study’s results. The scope includes an in-depth analysis of two of Peel’s sites plus a desktop analysis of their remaining four sites. The completed work is expected to cost approximately $44,000.
| Documents | Report Model |
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| Related Projects | Project #758 Project #1134 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
December 20, 2022
Depot Leasing Guide and Training Session
CIF developed a guidance document, sample lease, and training session on the options and considerations associated with leasing all or portions of depots to external parties. The intent of the project was to aid Ontario depot-only communities in making informed recommendations to their Councils related to blue box program services after the transition of Ontario’s Blue Box program in 2026.
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December 5, 2023
Depot Operations Cost Data RFQ
During the course of discussions about transition planning, it became apparent that municipalities needed assistance in determining their depot operating costs. The project involved development of a team of qualified consultants to aid municipalities in assessing their overhead administration, operating and capital costs across a range of sites.
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April 3, 2021
Depot Services: Non-Eligible Sources Field Study
Research shows that depot only municipalities in Ontario need guidance to 1) gather accurate data on non-eligible sources using their site(s) (e.g., number, materials), and 2) understand what other options are available. An initial field study will be conducted with one partnering municipality, and, at the discretion of the CIF, it may be expanded to additional municipalities. The goal of this field study is to substantiate what is happening at depot sites with regard to non-eligible sources.
The study will:
- Test Circular Materials (CMO) assumption that 25% of tonnage is generated from non-eligible sources (CIF study will not be used by CMO an indication of all depot only municipalities, municipalities will need to conduct the work individually, CIF is testing a sample methodology)
- Calculate usage rate (%) by dividing the # of non-eligible sources using the blue box depot by the total sources using the blue box depot and multiplying by 100
- Determine the costs to service non-eligible sources separate from a residence and facility program
- Continue to work with CMO to develop a strategy for using the results from the study (e.g., tonnages generated)
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May 29, 2023
Depot Upgrade
A service level upgrade to the Woodstock depot designed to permit collection of EPS and other materials 24 hrs. 7 days a week. Build new fabric storage building, buy new self dumping bins and various site works to permit operating depot 24 hrs. daily.
| Documents | Final Report: City of Woodstock - Depot Upgrade |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
November 3, 2018
Depot Upgrade
Replacement of standard 40 yd open top bins with oversize 50 yd bins to reduce lift frequency. The proposed bins will save almost $20,000 per year with a project payback of 5 yrs and CIF contribution of approx. 41%.
| Documents | Final Report: Highlands East Depot Upgrades |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
August 30, 2016
Depot Upgrades
This project involves development of an “options analysis” and possible conceptual facility design to address traffic loading issues at the Kenora landfill and public drop-off.
| Documents | Final Report: Kenora Recycling Depot Options Review |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
March 10, 2017
Depot Upgrades - Compactors
This project will save shipping costs by compacting 2 stream recyclable materials. Compacting increases the tonnage per load and reduces the annual number of loads shipped to the MRF.
| Documents | Final Report: Highlands East Depot Upgrades |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
April 26, 2019
Development & Delivery of a Pilot Workshop
Development of a pilot workshop on adding #3-7 plastics to municipal blue box programs.
| Documents | Presentation: Enhanced Blue Box Plastics Recovery |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Training | |
January 31, 2012
Development of a Co-operative Recycling Services RFP
Support for the development of a co-operative recycling services RFP for 7 municipalities in Lambton County as per best practice.
| Documents | Request for Proposal: Waste Management Collection Services |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | |
September 7, 2014
Development of a Cooperative Recycling Services RFP
Support for the development of a cooperative recycling services RFP for the Towns of Renfrew and Arnprior to meet best practice.
| Documents | RFP: Tender Call for Recyclable Material Collection, Processing and Marketing Services |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | Regional Cooperation | |
September 30, 2011
Development of a Cooperative Recycling Services RFP
Support for the development of a cooperative recycling services RFP for the Townships of Madawaska Valley and Killaloe, Hagarty & Richards to meet best practice.
| Documents | RFP: Multi-Municipal Recycling |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | Regional Cooperation | |
March 12, 2013
Development of a New CIF Price Sheet
This project considered development of a new methodology for determining the composite index associated with the CIF Price Sheet.
| Documents | CIF Ontario Price Sheet |
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| Related Projects | Project #869 Project #779 Project #1172 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
April 30, 2019
Development of a Recycling Services RFP
Support for the development of a recycling services RFP for the City of Brockville to meet best practice.
| Documents | Request for Proposal: Solid Waste Management Services |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | |
May 1, 2012
Development of ABC Tools and Transitional Strategies
A project to produce checklists, tools and/or asset valuation methodologies applicable to non-standard program operating structures designed to have Province-wide value for those groups, as well as conventional municipal programs operating non-contract, in-house, waste diversion programs.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipally Operated MRFs: Blueprint for Full Producer Responsibility Transition |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Transition | Valuation | |
January 28, 2019
Development Support for Cooperative Collection and Processing RFP
Support proponent communities in joint evaluation of a multi-municipal recycling RFP and investigate viability of developing a transfer station.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Contract Development and Transfer Evaluation |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | Regional Cooperation | Transportation | |
February 15, 2010
Dorset Transfer Station Solar Compactor Project
Installation of fibre and container solar compactors at Algonquin Highlands Dorset transfer station. The installation is expected to cost approx. $158,000 and will receive 43% funding from CIF with a payback of under 6 years.
| Documents | Final Report: Dorset Drop-Off Transfer Site Solar Compactors |
| Blog Post | December 2, 2016: Will a Compactor Cut Your Costs? Crunch the Numbers… |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
November 19, 2016
Dryden Small Program P&E Plan
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs. Dryden implemented a P&E program which included depot signage. Diversion of recyclables increased but mostly due to other P&E efforts.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
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| Related Projects | Project #529.2 |
| Categories | Communication/Education | Depots | Signage | |
June 29, 2015
Durham MRF Container Line Upgrade
Durham Region MRF container line redesign and upgrade to accommodate an increased volume of inbound plastics.
| Documents | Final Report: Durham Region MRF Container Line Productivity and Efficiency Upgrade |
| Blog Post | October 4, 2019: Maintaining Efficiency & Effectiveness (E&E) with a payback of 2.2 years |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | |
October 9, 2019
Eastern Ontario Industrial Site Search
PSTG Consulting Inc. retained to conduct a preliminary search for industrial sites in Eastern Ontario that could accommodate a Material Recycling Facility (MRF).
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | MRF | Planning | Project Support | |
January 1, 2011
Eastern Ontario MRF Opportunities
Review current status of municipal contracts and programs around and east of Ottawa – develop MRF Strategy as requested by CIF Committee.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Regionalization in Eastern Ontario: Review of Options for RARE Facility in Alexandria |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
January 1, 2010
Eastern Ontario Regional Diversion System Modelling Study
In 2011, the CIF hired AECOM to provide an analysis of an optimum diversion network for Eastern Ontario. The study was to incorporate program tonnages, costs and flows among public and private sector MRFs and to consider the impacts of re-purposing, closing or expanding existing facilities, as well as development of a new regional facility.
This project built upon and utilized the findings of Project #254: “Public Sector MRF Capacity and Capability Study”, which was completed by AECOM earlier that year.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #179 Project #254 Project #398 |
| Categories | Planning | Project Support | Regional Cooperation | |
October 31, 2011
Eastern Ontario System Research & Analysis
In 2011, the CIF hired Earth’s Edge Inc. to compile data on the municipal and private sector waste system infrastructure in Eastern Ontario to aid it in making informed decisions on potential capital investments and other funding requests from local municipalities. This followed the work Earth’s Edge completed under Project #334 earlier in the year, when the consultant was retained to obtain information on municipal blue box programs in Eastern Ontario including the current status of contracts, plan development and implementation, and anticipated 2011 CIF applications.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #334 |
| Categories | Project Support | Regional Cooperation | |
December 31, 2011
Eastern Ontario Transportation Logistics Analysis
This project involves modeling of standard hauling and transfer metrics to the Eastern Ontario wasteshed to determine how best to optimize the existing infrastructure and to assist the CIF in making informed decisions on capital investments in the area. An upset limit of $3,000 was established for this phase of the project.
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| Categories | Best Practices | Models | Transportation | |
December 31, 2012
Eddy Current
Niagara Region is proposing to install a 48 inch eccentric field Eddy current unit to replace the existing 30 inch concentric field unit and capture more aluminum that currently ends up as contamination in the mixed plastics and to improve the quality of the aluminum product from 8% contamination to under 2% contamination. CIF will contribute up to 43% or $53,125 to this project.
| Documents | Final Report: Eddy Current Separator System |
| Blog Post | April 1, 2016: Cleaner bales for increased revenues; It just makes sense |
| Related Projects | Project #821.2 Project #821.31 Project #821.32 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
October 10, 2016
Eddy Current Installation
Install Eddy current separator in MRF.
| Documents | Final Report: Eddy Current Sorting System |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
May 2, 2011
Emerging Technologies Evaluation
OCETA (Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement) was retained to develop an “Innovation Strategy Roadmap” for the CIF to assist in identifying priority areas and best available technologies, to direct funding for further research, development and demonstration of technologies.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Innovation | Project Support | |
January 30, 2010
Enhanced Website
Pilot Promotion and Education project (3 sites tested – see also #200 and 214). Development of a web portal for the promotion of the recycling program. Web site includes a waste exchange element as well as program information. Usage of the website will be monitored to determine the effectiveness of the tool.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipal Website Enhancement |
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| Related Projects | Project #200 Project #214 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Communication/Education | |
January 1, 2011
Enhanced Website
Pilot Promotion and Education project (3 sites tested – see also #198 and 214). Development of a web portal for the promotion of the recycling program. Web site includes a waste exchange element as well as program information. Usage of the website will be monitored to determine the effectiveness of the tool.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipal Website Enhancement |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #198 Project #214 |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
January 1, 2011
Enhanced Website
Pilot Promotion and Education project (3 sites tested – see also #198 and 200). Development of a web portal for the promotion of the recycling program. Web site includes a waste exchange element as well as program information. Usage of the website will be monitored to determine the effectiveness of the tool.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipal Website Enhancement |
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| Related Projects | Project #198 Project #200 |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
January 1, 2011
EPR Activity Based Costing Model
This project provided Toronto with an accurate account of its’ total cost of blue box services; outlined a number of the key considerations during implementation and transition to EPR; and provided Activity Based Costing (ABC) tools for use in Toronto and across the Province. Watch this two-minute video of municipal staff explaining why they recommended an ABC costing approach to Council.
| Documents | EPR Analysis Template for Municipalities Instructions for EPR Template |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Transition | |
December 12, 2020
EPR Business Case Analysis and ABC Tools
The development of an asset valuation guide and a business case analysis would be advantageous to municipalities considering questions about future value of assets. Business case financial tools and/or asset valuation methodologies developed for generic use will have significant value for municipalities needing to answer questions about retention or sale of program assets. This project aimed to address these items.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #1017 Project #1050 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Transition | Valuation | |
July 20, 2018
EPR Transitional Support – Small Municipal Cost Models
In preparation for transition under the new provincial EPR legislation, members of the LaCloche Foothills Municipal Association and neighbouring municipalities proposed to complete an analysis of member costs and program performance; and development of a landfill cost model to inform their decisions about prioritizing diversion activities. The project deliverable served as a model of small municipal cooperation for similar municipalities throughout Ontario.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #1034 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Regional Cooperation | Transition | |
April 29, 2019
EPS Densification
Engineering to develop a mobile expanded polystyrene densification program that can go from municipality-to-municipality to process EPS and send to market.
| Documents | Final Report: Densification and Recycling of Post-Consumer Polystyrene Packaging |
| Blog Post | July 13, 2018: CIF Pilot Project Confirms Expanded Polystyrene Recycling Possible but Challenging |
| Related Projects | Project #731 Project #1035 |
| Categories | End Markets | Innovation | Material Separation | |
January 1, 2010
EPS Densifier
Niagara Region applied to install an expanded polystyrene (EPS) densifier to increase the value of their mixed plastics stream and to reduce the costs and improve the efficiencies associated with shipping the low density EPS materials. CIF will contribute up to 39% or $23,400 to this project.
| Documents | Final Report: EPS Densifier Niagara Region |
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| Related Projects | Project #821.2 Project #821.32 Project #821.33 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
July 10, 2017
Essex Windsor Regional Landfill Public Depot
This project involves construction of a new public service drop off depot at the EWSWA regional landfill. The depot will provide residents with ‘one stop’ drop off of MHSW, WEEE, white goods and blue box recyclables. The facility is expected to divert an additional 200MT of recyclables from surrounding communities at a total cost of $38,000. The CIF contributed approximately $15,000 in funding representing 46% of the project costs with a payback of under 2 years compared with current curbside collection and disposal costs.
| Documents | Final Report: EWSWA Blue Box Depot |
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| Related Projects | Project #513.2 Project #513.4 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
December 12, 2014
EWSWA Container Line Residue Conveyor & Fibre Line Optical Sorter
Conduct a MRF efficiency study and install capital improvements based on confirmation upgrades to container residue conveyor and fibre line optical sorter are recommended.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | July 9, 2020: The potential of small upgrades to make a big difference |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
April 26, 2023
Expansion of Blue Box Collection
Expand curbside recycling collection to new residential development; support for communications and recycling boxes.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box Curbside Expansion to unserviced condo development |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | |
March 14, 2013
Expansion of Blue Box Collection
Funding support to develop collection services RFP resulted in award of 7 year contract to BFI Canada (formerly WSI) with an approximate value of $10 million to start April 1, 2011 for the collection of Blue Box recycling and pilot curbside organics in one village. County staff worked with BFI to optimize collection routing into zones rather than routes based on municipal boundaries; resulted in increased efficiency in collection and simplified services.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Planning | Procurement | |
January 1, 2011
Extended Guidance for Producer Obligations & Tracking Tools
Under the Blue Box Regulation, producers of blue box materials are defined as those who supply packaging, paper products or packaging-like products used by consumers in Ontario. Municipalities that supply blue box materials (e.g., tax bills, calendars) to consumers may be an obligated producer.
CIF developed a guide and tools to assist municipalities in a) understanding why they may be considered a producer and b) how to establish a process to meet registration, reporting and other obligations under the Blue Box Regulation. The guide and tools were detailed in a workshop delivered in March of 2024.
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| Related Projects | Blue Box Producer Calculator |
| Categories | Producer Obligations | Transition | |
August 30, 2024
Facilitation of EPR Discussions
CIF co-funded a series of facilitated discussions between AMO, Toronto and SO. The purpose of the sessions was to allow both parties to explore issues of common interest related to operation and development of Ontario’s blue box program. The total cost is under $50k and the CIF’s contribution is up to $25K. Confidential negotiation.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Transition | |
January 29, 2017
Fibre Optical Sorters
Install twin 2800 mm. high definition optical sorters and peripheral equipment required for processing fibre to premium quality revenue levels at rates up to 24t/hr.
| Documents | Final Report: Fibre Optical Sorting System |
| Blog Post | August 4, 2017: Niagara Fibre Optical Sorting Success Story |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
August 17, 2017
Fibres are In Campaign
A multi media campaign targeted at increasing the capture of fibre materials. The promotion and education tactics will build upon the successes of the Plastics Are In campaign of 2011.
| Documents | Final Report: Paper is in! Fibre Recycling Campaign |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | Regional Cooperation | |
November 1, 2015
Field Trial of Hydrogen Injection System in Recycling Trucks
Field trial of equipment from Innovative Hydrogen Solutions on three Turtle Island recycling trucks in York Region and two Plein Disposal recycling trucks in Waterloo Region to test fuel and maintenance improvements and cost savings.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Trucks Equipped with i-phi Hydrogen Generating Technology |
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| Categories | Collection | Innovation | |
November 11, 2011
First Nation Blue Box Transition Resources
CIF developed a number of transition resources that were specific to First Nations Communities.
- A customizable PowerPoint tool "Backgrounder on the Ontario Blue Box Program Transition to Producer Responsibility" for First Nation communities. This resource includes instructional slides on how to use the tool and a wide range of blue box transition topics (e.g., what is producer responsibility, key players and their roles in the system, key concepts and terms, options and engagement process).
- A "First Nation Blue Box Program Transition Checklist" to provide First Nation staff with information about the blue box transition process. It addresses a range of potential questions that communities may have about joining the new Blue Box Program, including how communities will be affected and what policies, procedures or promotions are needed to ensure a smooth transition. Recognizing that each community has uniquely different information requirements, the checklist addresses a wide range of questions to ensure that individual transition plans address all key considerations.
- A memo, "The Blue Box Program Transition Plan Overview" to provide a concise overview of the blue box transition for First Nations audiences.
- A draft report and presentation on the Blue Box Transition to be used for Band Councils.
- An Information and Costing Tool to assist staff in identifying a variety of information and costs associated with operating the blue box program. Gathering this information can assist in preparing to complete the RPRA transition report and engage with Circular Materials. Developed on an Excel platform, this tool has eight tabs that collect important information about the FN community’s Blue Box program including community demographics, Blue Box program system operations, and Blue Box program capital and operating cost breakdown.
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| Categories | First Nations Communities | Transition | |
September 13, 2024
First Nation Transition Working Group
In 2022, CIF launched a First Nation Blue Box Transition Working Group (FNTWG) with the goal of helping First Nation staff understand the blue box transition process and the implications of the various schedules and agreements, as well as allowing for an exchange of learnings and to identify communication and technical support needed by First Nation communities to guide staff through the transition process.
| Documents | First Nation Transition Working Group Meeting Slides:
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| Categories | First Nations Communities | Transition | |
December 31, 2024
First Nations Waste Recycling Strategy Training
Provision of workshop support to assist Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation with delivery of recycling plan training to local bands.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | First Nations Communities | Planning | Training | |
February 24, 2011
Flexible Film Plastics Packaging Study
The CIF, in partnership with SO and CPIA, conducted a study of the current flexible film packaging market to objectively research and assess options for flexible film plastics packaging collection, processing and sortation and the associated cost implications to the current blue box system. The study was expected to cost approximately $60,000 and the CIF had approved funding of up to $20,000 towards this project.
| Documents | Final Report: Analysis of Flexible Film Plastics Packaging Diversion Systems |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Increase Multi-res Compliance - PN #156 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
May 29, 2013
Full Cost Accounting Study & Data Acquisition Template Development
This Full Cost Accounting Study will develop a data acquisition template that can be used for other municipalities. A common methodology leveraged through the template to capture full costs will benefit the broad municipal sector as the new legislation is enacted and policy statements are developed.
| Documents | Final Report: York Region Full Cost Accounting Study |
| Blog Post | August 20, 2018: The Region of York and Its Local Municipalities Complete their Waste System Full Cost Accounting Study |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Transition | |
October 10, 2018
Generic Contingency Plan Guide
A number of municipalities encountered serious service failures in 2019. As a result, the CIF was asked to prepare guidance materials on how to develop and implement a contingency plan.
| Documents | CIF Contingency Plan Guide for Service Disruptions |
| Blog Post | April 16, 2020: Guide for Developing a Waste Management Service Contingency Plan now available |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Planning | Policy | |
April 25, 2020
Geographical Optimization Project Modeling
The 2013 REOI process contemplates releasing approximately $9 million to municipalities interested in either implementing the results of the MIPC Provincial Infrastructure Study or similar cost saving initiatives. The CIF Committee at its Oct 30th, 2012 meeting directed staff to contract with RSS to provide support services to interested municipalities to evaluate their options under the study and to train CIF staff in the use of the model which was developed as part of the MIPC Study. This service will be provided on an ‘as needed basis’.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Regional Cooperation | |
February 26, 2015
GIS Collection Point & Service Level Mapping System
This project involves the use of GIS technology to map Muskoka District’s curbside collection service points and link service levels to those data points in anticipation of their upcoming collection rfp. The work is expected to cost approximately $85,000 and is expected to provide prospective bidders with the information needed to accurately bid on the pending RFP. The CIF will contribute approx $25,000 or 25% funding.
| Documents | Final Report: GIS Collection Point and Service Level Map |
| Blog Post | September 15, 2016: Accurate Stop Counts Lead to Better Customer Service & Contract Management October 24, 2019: Unit Count Studies for Program and Transitional Planning: A Review of Two Methods |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Collection | Planning | |
September 10, 2016
Glass Clean Up System Measuring & Monitoring Initiative
A report documenting the key project learnings particularly those related to installation, cost savings and commodity quality improvement achieved through the installation of a glass clean up system.
| Documents | Final Report: Container Line Performance Audits and Improvement Recommendations |
| Blog Post | February 17, 2017: Maximizing Revenues at the City of Hamilton |
| Related Projects | Project #816.2 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
February 23, 2015
Glass Cleanup System
Niagara Region proposes to install a glass cleanup system to clean up to 3,000 tonnes of recovered glass product to a level suitable for feedstock for a glass crushing mill that produces glass shot for the sandblasting industry. The system will cost $225,000 and will result in a revenue of $84,000 annually compared to current glass disposal costs of $45,360 per year. Other municipalities may wish to use this technology, if successful, to develop alternative glass re-use systems including manufacture of aggregate and as a sand replacement.
| Documents | Final Report: Glass Clean-Up System |
| Blog Post | July 21, 2016: Niagara Continues to Show Leadership in Addressing Problematic Materials May 30, 2017: CIF Continues to Assist Municipalities with Solutions to Recover Problematic Materials September 3, 2020: Recycled glass sand used for stormwater management |
| Related Projects | Project #821.2 Project #821.31 Project #821.33 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
August 30, 2016
Glass Market Review 2019
A snapshot analysis of the current market for curbside BlueBox glass was requested by RPWCO members to assess the risk of a market disruption by the unexpected loss of a primary glass processor.
| Documents | Final Report: Glass End Markets |
| Blog Post | February 14, 2020: End market options for post-consumer glass |
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| Categories | Best Practices | End Markets | |
December 20, 2019
Glass Market Status Report
The glass market in Ontario has continued to be challenging for many years. This report was intended to provide a snap shot in time update to stakeholders on the issues and status of the market as a result of concerns raised at JAMTAG, CIF Committee and by suppliers in the fall of 2014.
| Documents | Final Report: Glass Processing in Ontario |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | MRF | Post-Collection | |
June 26, 2015
GTA Plastics Campaign
Proposal to develop a multi-media advertising campaign to promote plastics in GTA and Golden Horseshoe municipalities. The campaign will run starting in the middle of September 2013 and end before the intense Christmas advertising season starts in early November. The plan involves a coordinated radio, social media, newspaper, bill board and digital in-store advertising campaign. Estimated total costs are approximately $400,000 in cash split between SO and CIF. Municipalities will additionally match this funding with CNA/OCNA in-kind advertising allotments.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | Regional Cooperation | |
December 18, 2013
Guelph Glass Sorter
Guelph proposes to install a new glass clean up system at the Guelph MRF and repurpose its existing glass optical sorter to reduce labour costs for sorting plastics. Guelph will also receive and process glass from other municipalities as part of the agreement with CIF. Project cost of approx. $900,000. CIF will contribute up to approximately $154,000.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Upgrade, Addition of Glass Sorter |
| Blog Post | May 30, 2017: CIF Continues to Assist Municipalities with Solutions to Recover Problematic Materials |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
March 18, 2017
Guelph MRF Energy Efficiency Upgrades
This project involves funding of part of a suite of recommended energy efficiency opportunities identified as a result of a review of the Guelph mrf by an independent ESCO or Energy Services Company (see CIF Project #216). The project cost is approximately $310,000 and is eligible for almost $28,000 in funding from other agencies. The project received $118,399 in funding from the CIF which represents approximately 42% of the unfunded portion of the project. Annual savings of $117,227 are expected as a result of these improvements which represents a payback of just over 1 year on the CIF investment. Almost $700,000 in additional upgrades were identified by the consultant which Guelph staff are considering for implementation in future years.
| Documents | Final Report: Energy Conservation Project |
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| Related Projects | Project #216 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | |
March 9, 2013
Haldimand County Transfer Station
In late 2008 the municipalities of Haldimand and Norfolk received funding from the CIF (Project 103) to conduct a review of the future viability of their jointly owned facility and to explore the various options. The completed report concluded that cessation of mrf operations and transfer of the two communities materials to more cost effective processors was the best option. Based on this information, Haldimand subsequently applied for and received funding in Jan of 2010 to construct a transfer station.
| Documents | Final Report: Canborough Recycling Transfer Station |
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| Related Projects | Project #103 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | Regional Cooperation | Transportation | |
December 12, 2014
Hamilton MRF Container Line Upgrade
This project supports the installation of a second optical sorter on Hamilton’s container line and re-purposing of their existing optical to improve the capture of high value commodities and reduce process loss. A 2014 MRF efficiency audit (CIF #816.3) recommended the installation to help increase revenue generating potential and reduce residue management costs. The proposed upgrades are expected to achieve a 4.8-year payback.
| Documents | Final Report: Material Recovery Facility Assessment: Implementation of Recommendations for a Second Optical and Residue Quality Control Station |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
March 4, 2018
Hamilton MRF Energy Efficiency Upgrades
The City of Hamilton recently completed an energy savings review of its MRF operation (project 347) and plan to act on the recommendations of the study. The proposed retrofits will cost over $500,000 after funding incentives from other agencies are considered. The City is implementing a portion of the recommendation at a cost of approximately $230,000 after incentives and the CIF will contribute approximately 42% of these costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Phase 1 Energy Retrofit Review |
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| Related Projects | Project #347 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
March 22, 2014
Hastings Highlands RFP Support
Assist with drafting/issue of new recycling collection/processing RFP and conversion of 9 local depots to front end load service.
| Documents | Synopsis RFP: Waste and Recycling Haulage and Recycling Processing |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Procurement | |
July 28, 2016
Hearst Transition from Depot to Curbside Service
A cost contained diversion rate improvement for the Town of Hearst achieved through an increase in the collection service level from depot based to automated curbside collection and the construction of a transfer station.
| Documents | Final Report: Town of Hearst Curbide Recycling Program Report |
| Blog Post | September 6, 2019: Town of Hearst improves diversion and contain costs in a small municipal program |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
August 19, 2022
Hefty Energybag Flexible Plastics Pilot
The City of London undertook a two-year pilot that sought to improve the diversion of flexible film and other difficult to recycle plastics using the Hefty® EnergyBag® program promoted by Dow Chemical Company. Timelines and methodologies were adjusted throughout this Pilot Project due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The CIF contributed $65,954.40 of project costs to evaluate collection and processing impacts. However CIF recognizes that due to the scale of this project the majority of funding came from other partners including the City of London and private businesses/associations.
| Documents | Final Report: The London Hefty ReNew Pilot Project |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Material Separation | |
May 9, 2024
Implement MRes Best Practice; Signage for Recycling Depots
Implement best practices with database update, site visits, performance monitoring, new P&E, additional carts.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices in the City of Sarnia |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
June 16, 2014
Implement MRes Best Practices
City of Barrie has 280 multi-res buildings and 7,500 units. Barrie will implement best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
In this best practices initiative, the City of Barrie: increased container space per building to meet the recommended ratio of 1 cart for every 7 units; increased in-unit storage capacity, and; ensured educational material was received by residents through hand delivery. The report provides many details of Barrie’s multi-residential sector, including data on barriers to recycling. Overall, this program boosted the municipality’s well-established MR program by 20% (tonnage).
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Blue Box Resources | Multi-Residential | |
December 19, 2014
Implement MRes Best Practices
Peel Region will implement multi-res best practices: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials. The Region will also implement KPMG best practices and transition to a front-end bin system at larger buildings.
Over a timespan of 5 years, Peel Region boosted its MR program by introducing numerous enhancement initiatives within the 4 recommended MR best practices. These included: piloting on-board weigh scales for improved monitoring, converting 283 buildings to front-end collection, and adding 1000 front-end bins to its service, extensive resident engagement through 95 lobby displays. Capacity was more than doubled, and there was an overall increase in recycling generation, capture and diversion rates; most notably at buildings that switched to front-end bins. With this improvement, Peel reduced its MR collection costs by 41%.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
| Blog Post | July 7, 2017: Managing Residue in Multi-residential Buildings: Lessons learned from Peel Region March 2, 2018: MR Contamination Minimization Campaigns: What Works & What Doesn’t? |
| Related Projects | Project #566.11 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Blue Box Resources | Multi-Residential | |
May 16, 2013
Implement MRes Best Practices
City of London will focus on increasing their cart to unit ratio to 1:7 and will introduce cardboard bin collection. The project will also implement multi-res best practices (update database, site visits, performance monitoring, new P&E) and delivery out-reach activities to buildings.
This report features a campaign delivered by the City of London that increased recycling service by 4656 units (to a total of 49,324) and increased overall container capacity. Along with the standard best practice implementation, London applied such strategies as only providing P&E, in-unit bags and workshops to property managers that committed to providing a minimum container capacity at 35 litres per unit. Total recycling capacity was expanded by 60% (1,307,160 litres to 2,163,616 litres)
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Multi-Residential | Operations | |
December 31, 2014
Implement MRes Best Practices
Waterloo will ‘relaunch’ their multi-res program. The project will implement best practices (update database, site visits, performance monitoring, new p&e, increase number of carts). Will distribute in-unit containers to all multi-res households.
In this Region of Waterloo project, the following best practices were implemented: conducting site visits to assess recycling performance (benchmarking); providing adequate bin capacity; identifying the overall program recycling rate, and distributing new promotion and education materials. The municipality distributed almost 1000 carts, increasing average MR capacity by 4 litres/household; recycling increased by 6%. This report lists numerous operational, administrative, and educational multi-residential recycling recommendations.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Multi-Residential | Operations | |
July 31, 2014
Implement MRes Best Practices
City of Greater Sudbury has 400 multi-res buildings. Sudbury will implement best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
November 10, 2013
Implement MRes Best Practices
The City of North Bay has 250 multi-res buildings. North Bay will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
October 11, 2012
Implement MRes Best Practices - Essex Windsor
EWSWA will add recycling capacity in multi-res buildings by replacement of 360 litre carts with 4 yard bins at buildings with more than 140 units and increase number of carts at other buildings to best practice levels to achieve overall goal of 50 litre per unit on average.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Related Projects | Project #513.2 Project #513.11 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
March 8, 2012
Implement MRes Best Practices - Kawartha Lakes
The City of Kawartha Lakes includes 17 communities, a population of 80,000 and covers an expansive geographic area. At their approximately 200 mostly small buildings, Kawartha Lakes staff will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Related Projects | Project #508.2 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
February 25, 2014
Implement MRes Best Practices - Oxford
Oxford County has 100 multi-res buildings. Oxford will implement best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Related Projects | Project #514.2 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
December 3, 2012
Implement MRes Best Practices - Woodstock
The City of Woodstock has 105 multi-res buildings. Woodstock will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Related Projects | Project #525.2 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
March 12, 2015
Implement Multi-residential (MR) Best Practices
Implement region-wide MR best practices to include: increasing and standardizing services levels; the number of recycling carts to 1 cart for every 7 residential units, distributing new P&E materials, updating the multi-res database and delivering a range of outreach activities.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
April 27, 2014
Implement Multi-residential Best Practices
Implement best practices for MR recycling with database update, site visits, performance monitoring, new P&E, more carts, in-unit containers for all MR households.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
August 14, 2014
Implement Multi-residential Best Practices
The City of St. Thomas has 105 multi-residential buildings. St. Thomas will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
December 29, 2014
Implement Multi-Residential Best Practices
The Town of Perth has 22 multi-res buildings. As part of the transitioning to a two-stream program, Perth will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
December 9, 2012
Implementation of Multi-Residential Best Practices
Halton Region has 500 multi-res buildings. Halton Region will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Related Projects | Project #631.11 Project #631.2 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
November 17, 2015
Implementation of Multi-Residential Best Practices
Aylmer has 40 multi-res buildings. Alymer will implement multi-res best practices.
| Documents | Final Report: Implementing Multi-Residential Best Practices |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
January 22, 2014
Implementation of Multi-Residential Best Practices - Brantford
Brantford has 160 multi-res buildings. Brantford will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
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| Related Projects | Project #534.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
November 26, 2015
Implementing On-Truck RFID Tracking for Collection
Install RFID readers on the automated curbside collection vehicles to track the recycling container information in the new collection program.
| Documents | Final Report: Implementing On-Truck RFID Tracking for Collection |
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| Categories | Collection | Innovation | |
July 12, 2012
Improved Rural Recycling Depots Through Signage
Goals are to: 1) install proper signage at out lying depots; 2) maximize rural recycling depot site efficiency, increase participation, capture and minimize contamination.
| Documents | Final Report: Improved Rural Recycling Depots through Signage |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | Depots | |
February 20, 2013
Increase Multi-res Compliance
Implement an outreach program to increase the number of multi-res buildings by 20-30%.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices Essex Windsor |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | Multi-Residential | |
March 8, 2012
Increasing Collection Capacity in Multi-Residential Buildings
Increasing collection capacity in multi-residential buildings to best practice levels (1 cart for every 7 units or 50L/unit). For this project, the Township of Alfred and Plantagenet launched a cart service program to address broad inconsistencies – in collection containers and materials collected – in its MR sector. To create a uniform program for its 600 MR households, staff introduced 95-gallon carts across the board and initiated a single-stream program consistent with its curbside collection. The cart program was a success and diversion rate increased by more than 20% from 2015 to 2016.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Cart Recycling Program |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #545.2 |
| Categories | Multi-Residential | Operations | |
October 22, 2016
Increasing Curbside Collection Capacity
Large curbside containers will be used to support the harmonization of the blue box program of 8 amalgamated municipalities under Dufferin County. The increase in curbside collection storage capacity is expected to increase capture.
| Documents | Final Report: Large Blue Boxes for New Amalgamated Program |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Collection Containers | |
January 29, 2015
Ineligible Sources Collection Planning Workshop
In June 2021, the Ontario government passed O. Reg. 391/21 – Blue Box, which itemizes those sources (i.e., residence, facility, and some public spaces) that will receive collection services by the producers soon to be responsible for the cost and operation of the blue box program. CIF facilitated online sessions to assist municipalities and First Nations communities in determining options for each soon to be ineligible sector.
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| Categories | Best Practices | Transition | |
December 10, 2022
Installation of Compactor Systems
This project involves the installation of compaction systems for fibres and containers at four of Sequin Township’s busiest depots to reduce hauling costs. The system is expected to cost approximately $450,000 and achieve a project payback of approximately 4 years. The CIF will contribute approx $210,000 or 47% funding.
| Documents | Final Report: Installation of Compactor Systems |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
June 7, 2015
Integrated Recycling Plan
Piloting of the CIF Recycling Planning Guideline and Template. Five municipalities in Lambton County requested assistance from CIF with plan development and agreed to pilot the new planning template.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for Sarnia, Point Edward, St. Clair, Petrolia, and Enniskillen |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
July 13, 2014
Integrated Recycling Plans Template
Development of a Municipal Waste Recycling Strategy template that can be used by municipalities to assist them with meeting best practices as laid out originally by WDO (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Waste Recycling Strategy Planning WRS Guideline WRS Template (pdf) WRS Template (MS Word) |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
January 1, 2012
Integrated Waste Management Plan
Developed integrated waste management plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Management Master Plan |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
Integrated Waste Management Plans
Developed integrated waste management plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Integrated Waste Management Plan |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
International Technology Scan
Environmental Business Consultants (EBC) was contracted to identify countries most likely to be sources of innovative or emerging technologies that could be applied to the Ontario Blue Box Program. Contact was then made with the appropriate government embassies and agencies within those countries to solicit assistance in identifying companies with expertise in sorting, densifying, transporting, cleaning recyclables and contaminated plastics. A total of thirteen European and Asian countries were contacted with submissions received back from the majority. Several companies with new technologies of potential interest were identified and require additional follow-up.
| Documents | Final Report: International Technology Scan Relating To Plastic Recycling |
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| Categories | Innovation | Post-Collection | |
January 1, 2010
International Technology Trade Mission
Complete a “first hand” investigation of technologies being employed overseas and examine the potential applications for these technologies and their potential use in Ontario.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Innovation | |
September 30, 2010
Investigating the Use of Recycled Glass for Storm Water Management
This project will test the viability and economics of producing a manufactured soil media, by including processed Blue Box program glass, that works more effectively than the manufactured media currently used to control urban storm-water runoff. If successful, a substantial and sustainable new market for Blue Box glass could be established.
| Documents | Final Report: Investigating the Use of Recycled Glass for Storm Water Management |
| Blog Post | June 20, 2018: Development of an Alternative Glass Market: Bio-Soil from Recycled Glass September 3, 2020: Recycled glass sand used for stormwater management |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
March 20, 2020
IPR Transition Financial Planning Model Training Course
The CIF offered training sessions on the IPR Transition Financial Planning Model (See Project #1115/1116). Training provided an overview of inputs for the model and outline the utility of outputs with respect to future cost considerations. The model aims to identify the financial implications of transitioning to IPR on various dates in 2023, 2024 and 2025. The model was developed by RSM Canada.
| Documents | Synopsis Excel Model: Transition Planning Model |
| Blog Post | Financial model assists in identifying preferred transition date |
| Related Projects | Project #1115 Project #1116 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Models | Planning | Training | Transition | |
December 8, 2020
Joint Collections RFP Development and Promotion
This project involves the development of a joint RFP for collection and waste management services for Grey Highlands and surrounding municipalities. The projected cost of the project is $25,000 and the CIF will pay up to half the costs to ensure the RFP includes prescribed best practises and provide up to $3,000 to develop supporting joint promotion and educational materials.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Procurement | Regional Cooperation | |
December 13, 2016
Killaloe, Hagarty & Richards 2011 REOI Submission Review
In 2011, the CIF hired Earth’s Edge (now Redi Recycling) to review an REOI submission for the Township of Killaloe, Hagarty & Richards (KHR) involving a proposal to implement a public space Blue Box recycling program. The work included reviewing the application with KHR, performing a site visit, completing CIF documentation and recommending next steps for the REOI request.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Project Support | |
August 5, 2011
Kingston Optimization Study Analysis & Upgrade
The objective of Kingston’s Study is to complete a detailed analysis of cost implications and feasibility of the recommendations outlined in the MIPC commissioned Study of the Optimization of the Blue Box Material Processing System in Ontario (June 2012). Local analysis will be applied and the interest level of neighbouring municipalities in implementing development of a regional facility will be explored. The total study cost is $129,553, and CIF will fund 50% of the cost. The study will provide recommendations for Kingston’s ongoing role within the Eastern Ontario waste shed.
| Documents | Final Report: Kingston Regional MRF Study Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Post-Collection | Regional Cooperation | |
January 9, 2019
Lanark Highlands Promotion & Education Initiatives
Delivery of a P&E campaign to increase participation and diversion rates. In an attempt to increase participation in depot recycling, the Township installed new signage at three sites, including directional signage. Signage provided clear instructions on what was accepted at each location.
| Documents | Final Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | Depots | Signage | |
April 19, 2016
Large Capacity Blue Boxes for Container Stream
Support to purchase, distribute and provide P&E for larger sized residential recycling container. Program to add capacity at the curbside and provide support for distribution and P&E.
| Documents | Final Report: Region of Durham Large Blue Box Container Study Summary Report: Durham Region Additional Complimentary Blue Box |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | Composition Studies | |
March 21, 2012
Large Curbside Containers
Purchase & delivery of 2,755 large curbside recycling containers.
| Documents | Final Report: Supply & Distribution of Large Curbside Containers |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
October 21, 2012
Large Curbside Containers
Purchase & delivery of 5,515 large curbside recycling containers.
| Documents | Final Report: Supply and Distribution of 22 Gallon Blue Boxes |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
October 1, 2014
Large Curbside Containers
Purchase & delivery of 2,905 large curbside recycling containers.
| Documents | Final Report: Supply & Distribution of 22 Gallon Blue Boxes |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
December 5, 2013
Large Curbside Containers
For the purchase and distribution of the 22 gallon blue boxes for the City. The boxes will be promoted for the use of the containers stream of collection.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Bin Purchase and Distribution |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
August 26, 2011
Large Curbside Containers and Promotion & Education Campaign
Support for the purchase and distribution of the large sized curbside containers coincide with an expansion to the Towns blue box program. Also there will be a P&E campaign to promote the program change and inform residents of the new materials in the program.
| Documents | Final Report: Supply & Distribution of 22 Gallon Blue Boxes, Development of P&E |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | Communication/Education | |
December 9, 2012
Large Yellow Box Distribution & Promotion for New Materials
For the distribution of a 24 gallon yellow recycling container to provide additional capacity for the expanded collection of #1-7 plastics in the Town’s recycling program. There will be an associated P&E campaign to promote the changes to the program along with the distribution of the boxes.
| Documents | Final Report: Large Yellow Box Distribution and Promotion |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | Communication/Education | |
June 7, 2011
London MRF Hydro Capacitor Upgrade
The London MRF has a recurring power factor below the 90% monthly threshold. This low power factor results in increased electricity charges of approximately $10,000 per year. Installation of capacitors would result in the power factor consistently being above the 90% threshold yielding a 4 year payback on the investment.
| Documents | Final Report: London MRF Hydro Capacitor Upgrade |
| Blog Post | May 6, 2016: Lessons in Taking Advice – and Running with It! |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
May 25, 2016
London Multi-Res In-Unit Blue Bags
In-unit Blue Bags will be provided to Multi-residential households to provide capacity to store and transport recyclables. The bags will be large capacity (9 gallons) with full-colour photo graphics to provide recycling information.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices City of London |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Policy | |
October 12, 2015
London RFP Development: Technical Support for EPR Transition
The City of London released a Request for Proposals in the summer of 2018 for comprehensive recycling services (collection, processing and marketing of recyclables). This project sought to include clauses and procedures that will guide the purchasing process and eventual contractual agreement under transition to full producer responsibility of the Blue Box program.
| Documents | RFP: Recycling Collection, Garbage & Yard Waste Collection |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Procurement | Transition | |
November 24, 2019
Market Valuation of Recycling Business
The development of a business valuation guide and a business case analysis would be advantageous to municipalities considering questions about future value of assets. Business case financial tools and/or asset valuation methodologies developed for generic use will have significant value for municipalities needing to answer questions about retention or sale of program assets.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Valuation | |
November 26, 2020
Markham’s Big Blue Belly Solar Compaction Public Space Recycling Project
The Town of Markham is a leader in waste diversion and is the first community in North America to pilot the Big Belly Solar Compaction unit for the collection of recyclables in public spaces. Markham has installed 18 Big Blue Belly units in the downtown business areas of Unionville and Markham. At the same time, the Town has agreed to be the first Canadian community to pilot a computer electronic monitoring system that will use wireless technology to send information to the Town indicating when the units are full. The Town will conduct extensive monitoring to determine the unit’s payback and cost savings related to reduced collection time and increased revenues from additional recyclables collected. The project is expected to reduce collection costs by 50% and increase recycling capture rates. CIF is contributing $40,126 (46%) of the total project costs.
Tested using solar compactor public space bins on recyclables in two pilot BIAs. Also introduced extensive public education program in pilot BIAs. Resulted in compaction rates reducing volumes up to 86% higher than traditional bins and significant increase in diversion rates (up to 90% in one BIA). Collection labour and vehicle costs to service these units estimated to be reduced by 50-86% and payback between 2.6 and 4.5 years.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling: Big BLUE Belly Solar Recycling Containers |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
February 29, 2012
Material Audit Guide
A waste composition audit guide was developed at the request of a small rural community. This guide is intended to assist small municipalities in completion of a curbside waste audits using internal staff resources.
| Documents | Guide: Curbside Waste Audits: Considerations for Small Communities |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
November 30, 2012
Material Processing Option Review
Reviewed MRF operations and transportation alternatives.
| Documents | Final Report: Solid Waste Management Strategy Appendices |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Planning | Post-Collection | Transportation | |
January 1, 2011
Material Specific Cost Analysis
The City of Cornwall will undertake an activity-based costing (ABC) study of its MRF operations using the CIF’s ABC model. This study will help the City gain a better understanding of current costs associated with the management of their Blue Box materials and aid the municipality in preparation for transition.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Models | MRF | |
May 30, 2021
Materials Recycling Centre Viability Review
Studied impact of Haldimand County removing themselves and their material from the current co-ownership arrangement with Norfolk MRF.
| Documents | Final Report: Material Recovery Facility Optimization Study in the Counties of Haldimand and Norfolk |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #241 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Regional Cooperation | |
January 1, 2011
Maximizing Residential Waste Diversion – Phase 2
The current project is the second phase of an earlier project that formulated a menu of strategies designed to increase recycling in multi-res buildings. In Phase 2, the strategies will be tested in pilot buildings. Strategies range from training for building staff to recycling incentives for residents and staff.
| Documents | Final Report: Tower Renewal Waste Diversion Phase 2 |
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| Categories | Innovation | Multi-Residential | |
August 8, 2013
McDougall Landfill Solar Compactors Project
This project involves the installation of two solar powered compactor at the McDougall Township Landfill to capture corrugated cardboard currently being landfilled by residents. The compactors are solar powered with the capability to be hooked up with 110V or single phase back up. Their usage will allow the capture of an additional 300 tonnes/yr of material at an estimated 25% of the cost of providing the service with open top rolloffs. A project payback of under 5 years is expected.
| Documents | Final Report: McDougall Landfill Solar Compactors Project |
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| Categories | Compactors | Innovation | |
September 16, 2013
McKellar Transfer Station Solar Compactors Project
This project involves the replacement of side loading covered roll off bins for the collection of blue box recyclables at the McKellar transfer station with two compactor bins. The compactors are solar powered with 110V or single phase back up and will reduce bin pick up frequency through increased compaction of recyclables resulting in a projected savings of almost $40,000/year and a project payback of under 3 years.
| Documents | Final Report: Township of McKellar Solar Compactors Project |
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| Categories | Compactors | Innovation | |
March 31, 2011
McMurrich/Monteith Compactor Installation
McMurrich/Monteith is purchasing a set of used compactors from a neighbouring municipality to improve transportation efficiencies in hauling materials to market. The total project cost is $46,000. Savings of over $8,000/yr are expected. They have received $20,677 in funding from the CIF.
| Documents | Final Report: McMurrich/Monteith Compactors Project |
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| Categories | Compactors | Innovation | |
September 25, 2012
Medium to High Density (Multi-Residential) Building Code Improvements
The construction of medium to high density multi-residential buildings continues to increase across Ontario, leading to growing concerns about the proper design of garbage, recycling and organics collection systems for these types of buildings. To address these concerns, CIF developed a report that:
- identifies changes to provisions in the Ontario Building Code and the Planning Act that are required to ensure the proper design of collection systems in these new buildings
- describes policies that could be implemented municipally or provincially to improve design
- identifies best practices for standard clauses to be inserted in municipal development agreements or guidelines
| Documents | Final Report: Medium to High Density Building Code Improvements |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Multi-Residential | Policy | |
September 12, 2024
Meeting Entropex’s Mixed Rigid Plastics Bale Specifications
Increase New Material The development of a bale specification and potential MRF modifications that will be required to supply material to Entropex. The work will be co-funded with Entropex.
| Documents | Final Report: Mixed Rigid Plastics |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
January 1, 2011
MIPC Study – Local Study Analysis & Alternatives
Analysis of costs implications for Niagara Region stemming from the 2012 MIPC Study recommendations. The primary focus of the analysis will be to determine the cost difference between maintaining a MRF in Niagara vs. decommissioning the MRF and building a Transfer Station. Hauling costs will form part of the Transfer Station analysis. The study will give consideration to the impact on the number of tonnes collected resulting from changes to the program configuration (e.g., collection frequency, single vs. dual stream, manual vs. automated, etc.).
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
December 13, 2017
Mixed Broken Glass Cleanup System
This project involves the installation of glass clean up equipment in the York MRF. The cost of the project is approximately $1,700,000 and the CIF will contribute up to 48% of costs to support this very worthwhile project.
| Documents | Final Report: Mixed Broken Glass Clean Up System |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
July 6, 2018
Mixed Fibre Capacity Analysis
Implementation of the China Sword campaign highlighted issues with the quality of Ontario’s marketed Blue Box fibre and exposure to overseas markets. This study is intended to aid in understanding the current domestic market and its quality requirements as a first step to developing a sustainable domestic market. The cost of the study was $10,000.
| Documents | Final Report: Ontario Fibre Capacity Study |
| Blog Post | April 12, 2019: Assessing Domestic Capacity to Consume Fibres from Ontario Blue Box Program |
| Related Projects | Project #799 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
April 9, 2019
Mixed Fibre Capacity Analysis Update
In 2019, a supplementary analysis of the market (CIF #799) was undertaken by ReMM to determine if there had been any further change in market conditions. The cost of the supplementary work was $2,345.
| Documents | Final Report: Ontario Fibre Capacity Study Update Presentation: An Assessment of Domestic Fibre Capacity: A response to market changes |
| Blog Post | April 12, 2019: Assessing Domestic Capacity to Consume Fibres from Ontario Blue Box Program |
| Related Projects | Project #789 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
December 14, 2019
Mixed Paper Clean Up System
York Region proposes to install a Mixed Paper Clean Up System upstream of the finishing screens to remove misdirected containers on the mixed paper sort line. The Mixed Paper Clean Up System will improve misdirected container recovery prior to the mixed paper line, allowing recovery rate increases of 1.2%. Project value is approximately $2,420,000 with an approved funding of 45%.
| Documents | Final Report: Mixed Paper Clean Up System |
| Blog Post | March 17, 2016: Lessons in vigilance and ingenuity: optimizing performance at the York Region MRF |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
March 5, 2016
Mixed Plastics P&E Campaign
Support, up to $26,000, to the Region for a short term targeted P&E campaign for enhancing recovery of mixed plastics in the Region’s blue box program. The anticipated result is a 20% increase in capture of mixed plastics.
| Documents | Final Report: York Mixed Plastics P&E Campaign |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | |
September 9, 2014
Mixed Plastics Promotion & Education Campaign
Promotion and Education campaign to increase the capture rate of mixed plastics, with particular focus on PET, in the participating municipalities of Kawartha Lakes, City of Peterborough, Peterborough County and County of Northumberland. This project will also determine the effectiveness of a multi-municipal P&E campaign in order to establish a best practice approach that can be used in Ontario municipalities.
| Documents | Final Report: Plastic Is In! |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
November 18, 2015
Mixed Waste Processing Technology Feasibility Analysis
The City of Toronto will carry out a business case analysis of a Mixed Waste Processing (MWP) or ‘dirty MRF’ approach for the management of their increasingly contaminated recycling stream, particularly materials collected through the Multi-Residential (MRes) program.
| Documents | Final Report with Appendix: Mixed Waste Processing (Report without Appendix, Appendix) |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contamination | MRF | Multi-Residential | |
July 27, 2022
Mobile Education Unit
This project involves the design and development of an innovative mobile education unit for use by County staff at schools and public events. Its purpose is to educate residents about the County’s waste diversion programs. The unit is expected to have a reach of over 40,000 residents annually and with a potential diversion rate of over 200 additional tonnes annually. Approximately $45,000 in funding, representing 50% of eligible costs, was provided by the CIF.
| Documents | Final Report: Mobile Education Unit |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
May 24, 2012
Mobile EPS Processing Pilot
A mobile EPS densifier pilot to investigate the potential to minimize some issues that have kept some municipalities from adding this material to their program. The proposed pilot involves a portable unit that will travel from depot to depot in the SW Ontario corridor, manual sortation of collected EPS to meet end market specifications, and compaction of the materials into bales prior to transport to the end market thereby reducing hauling costs.
| Documents | Report |
| Blog Post | March 13, 2020: CIF’s Mobile EPS densification collection pilot has officially launched November 22, 2019: Testing mobile densification of EPS at Southwestern Ontario depots: is this a solution for your program? |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Material Separation | |
April 26, 2023
Mobile Glass Processing
The CIF is providing staff support to investigate rural glass processing options.
| Documents | Final Report: Mobile Glass Processing Equipment Feasibility Report |
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| Categories | Innovation | MRF | Post-Collection | |
January 1, 2010
MRes Access Database Template
Through this project an access database template was developed to assist Ontario municipalities with consistent recording of multi-residential properties in their communities. The database required CIF staff support to install. Municipal requests for the template ceased in 2020 and with the closure of the CIF in 2024, the template is no longer available.
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| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
June 28, 2023
MRF Activity Based Cost Model: Field Tests & Refinements
This work updated the Activity Based Costing (ABC) model for Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) completed under CIF Project 924 to further refine the principles, methodology, and common data inputs for assessing the true costs of processing residential blue box material commodities, particularly the costs of processing different material streams and the impact(s) of adding and/or removing materials from individual programs.
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| Related Projects | Project #924 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Models | MRF | |
March 4, 2022
MRF Audit Protocol Guide
A reference document for planning composition studies (audits) of Blue Box recyclables received at a municipal material recycling facility (MRF) or at a contracted (third party/private sector) MRF.
| Documents | MRF Audit Guide Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | September 1, 2016: What's in your MRF Material |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | MRF | |
July 13, 2016
MRF Business Case Framework and Tool
PSTG Consulting Inc. engaged to develop a framework and tool that can be used to assess the performance of both a specific MRF operation and MRFs on a larger system scale.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | MRF | Project Support | |
January 1, 2010
MRF Commissioning Protocol
Develop a MRF commissioning Protocol best practice document.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Acceptance Testing Guidelines |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
January 1, 2010
MRF ESCO
A review of the energy efficiency of Guelph’s MRF was completed by Optimira Energy (one of the three CIF pre-approved ESCO auditors). Over the long term, the project identified in excess of $1 million in potential low cost operational improvements and capital investments that are eligible for CIF funding. CIF and Guelph staff are currently exploring implementation of these options.
| Documents | Final Report: Energy Savings Assessment |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #287 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
January 1, 2012
MRF ESCO
MCW Consulting completed an energy efficiency study of Northumberland’s MRF; identified potential savings of almost $10,000/yr through lighting retrofit program.
| Documents | Final Report: Energy Audit Northumberland County Recycling Centre |
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| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | |
March 31, 2011
MRF ESCO
Rose Technology has been selected from CIF pre-approved ESCO auditors to complete an energy efficiency study of the City of Hamilton’s materials recycling facility. The study will endeavour to identify opportunities for energy savings in the operation of the facility.
| Documents | Final Report: Energy Savings Assessment |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #427 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
June 6, 2011
MRF ESCO
Ameresco Canada Inc. has been selected from one of three CIF pre-approved ESCO auditors to complete an energy efficiency study of the Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre. The study will endeavour to identify opportunities for energy savings in the operation of the facility.
| Documents | Final Report: Energy Assessment Report |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
January 1, 2012
MRF Expansion Procurement Options Analysis
An analysis of options for the ownership and management of the Kingston MRF in light of the pending changes to the BBPP under the Waste Free Ontario Act.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Planning | Transition | |
December 14, 2018
MRF Lighting Retrofit
Ottawa Valley completed an ESCO audit of their facility in 2010. The audit demonstrated that the plant was working efficiently but could achieve savings of over $5,000/yr through a lighting upgrade. Total cost of the project is expected to be approx $20k with CIF contributing up to 47% or $9,500.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Lighting Retrofit Project |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
April 17, 2013
MRF Operations Assessment
Assessment conducted of EWSWA’s existing container MRF operations to determine how best to add mixed plastics to their curbside recycling program as well as make recommendations on how to reduce residue and increase capture of existing materials.
| Documents | Final Report: EWSWA Container MRF Review |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
September 7, 2011
MRF Opportunity Review – Phase 4
This project expands on the work started and completed under the Region’s CIF Projects #993 and #1017. The project will utilize the formal Negotiated Request for Proposal (NRFP) process to solicit offers from the market to determine the best course of action for the Region and its MRF.
January 6, 2022
MRF Options Analysis
With passage of the Waste Free Ontario Act, Norfolk is considering the future of their MRF operations. As an initial step, the County undertook a feasibility study to examine the potential to re-purpose the site. The CIF provided up to $14,500 to assist the County with this work.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Transition | Valuation | |
July 16, 2018
MRF Options Analysis
With passage of the Waste Free Ontario Act, Peterborough, like many municipal MRF operators, undertook an options analysis for their facility. The CIF provided up to $40,000 towards assisting the City with this work.
| Documents | Final Report: Peterborough MRF Conversion Options |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Planning | |
August 26, 2018
MRF Performance Study
A MRF performance study to determine the processing efficiency of the facility followed by an equipment maintenance study to cross reference operational performance with maintenance records to verify upkeep, repair and replacement efforts needed to meet current and future needs.
| Documents | Final Report: Process/Equipment Review, Material Recycling Centre |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | MRF | |
September 30, 2018
MRF Preventative Maintenance Audit
This project involved completing a due diligence audit of the Waterloo MRF to confirm that the current contract operator has been performing adequate preventative maintenance on the facility and to assess the current level for routine wear and tear that has been incurred since the retrofit. The total cost of the project was $5,000 and was funded 50% by the CIF to better assess the upkeep of this key piece of provincial infrastructure.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
October 31, 2011
MRF Preventative Maintenance Audit
This project involved completing a due diligence audit of the Durham mrf to confirm that the current contract operator has been performing adequate preventative maintenance on the facility and to assess the current level for routine wear and tear that has been incurred since start up. The total cost of the project was $5000 and was funded by the CIF to better assess the potential value of conducting preventative maintenance audits of municipal MRFs.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Processing Equipment Condition Assessment |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
June 28, 2011
MRF Preventative Maintenance Workshop
Training course development & delivery for municipal staff focused on optimizing Material Recovery Facility performance & preventative maintenance.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | MRF | Operations | Training | |
December 31, 2015
MRF Regionalization & Transfer Station Construction
Simcoe County and the adjoining communities of Barrie and Orillia combined produce over 40,000 tonnes of recyclables annually. The MIPC Provincial Infrastructure Study recognizes the need for a mrf or transfer station in this area. The CIF has provided $2,150,000 (47% of blue box related project costs) in funding towards construction of a new facility to be used by the three communities. Construction of a transfer station is expected to cost approximately $8.6 million and will have a payback period of under 6 yrs.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #665.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Regional Cooperation | |
May 27, 2021
MRF Regionalization Assessment
The City of Thunder Bay recently completed a Solid Waste Master Plan which identified the need to review its processing options to support long term program expansion. Currently there is only one local private processor. This study will assess the viability of upgrading the local private facility compared to alternatives such as building a city owned MRF or transfer station. The project is expected to cost up to $30,000 and will be jointly funded by the CIF.
| Documents | Final Report: City of Thunderbay Long-Term Recyclable Material Processing Options Assessment |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Post-Collection | |
July 26, 2016
MRF Residue Compactor Upgrade
Peel Region’s mrf was designed with a compaction system to handle mrf process residue. Program growth has resulted in increasing volumes of residue that must be managed at the facility. The current compaction system cannot keep up with facility production resulting in excess quantities of residue being hauled uncompacted to the adjoining TS. Upgrading the compaction system will eliminate this double handling and allow Peel Region to divert additional material from expensive ‘after hours’ disposal options to a nearby residue recovery facility thereby improving their diversion rate. The project is expected to cost approximately $256,000 with an anticipated payback of only one year. The CIF will contribute 50% of total costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Material Recovery Facility Residue Compactor Upgrade |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
May 16, 2013
MRF Residue Reduction Initiative
This project involves an initial analysis of Quinte’s MRF to determine the source and value of its residue followed by a possible second phase capital investment to reduce residue levels where cost effective. The Phase One analysis will examine the source of Quinte’s residual levels and develop options for reduction and marketing of the material. The cost of the project is approximately $183,000 and the CIF will contribute up to 50% of costs subject to confirmation of the need to proceed to Phase Two.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Sort Process Improvements |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Contamination | MRF | Post-Collection | |
April 21, 2022
MRF Risk Analysis and Business Plan
In 2011, the City of Kingston hired AECOM to develop a risk analysis and business plan for a regional MRF. This work followed the completion of CIF Project #367, entitled “Eastern Ontario Regional Diversion System Modelling Study” whereby AECOM was hired by the CIF to provide an analysis of an optimum diversion network for Eastern Ontario. Within Project #367, several scenarios identified a rationale to establish a regional MRF in the Kingston area. This conclusion warranted additional detailed analysis.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #179 Project #254 Project #367 |
| Categories | MRF | Planning | Project Support | |
October 31, 2011
MRF Upgrade
Capitalization of a new optical sorter for containers; expected to reduce overtime and labour costs while improving throughput and capture of residual materials.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Upgrade, Addition of an Optical Sorter for PET Plastic |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | |
February 21, 2012
MRF Upgrade
Assistance to install backscraping drum to reduce “black belt” in OVWRC’s MRF to improve sorting efficiencies. The new drum improved fibre sorting efficiencies by over 3 tonnes//hr and reduced combined labour and processing costs by over $8,500 in the first 6 months of operations.
| Documents | Final Report: Fibre Line Backscraping Drum |
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| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | |
January 1, 2011
MRF Upgrade
Funding has been approved to co-fund an ergonomic assessment of Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre’s container and fibre lines. The objective of the study is to identify preventative measures to reduce MSD (musculoskeletal disorder) related injuries, lost time and alternative duty costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Ergonomic Assessment: Fibre and Container Sorting Lines |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
January 1, 2011
MRF Upgrade – Baler
Installation of a higher capacity baler with an improved energy efficiency rating that will allow for reduced utility costs, as well as a reduction of labour, operational supplies and hauling expenses.
| Documents | Final Report: CIF Summary Report Addendum: Baler Upgrade at the Material Recycling Centre (MRC) |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Operations | Post-Collection | |
October 3, 2015
MRF Upgrade – Container Baler System
This project involved replacing Northumberland’s existing container baler which has been in operation since 1991. The new baler is expected to save Northumberland approximately $70K/year in reduced maintenance, labour and transportation costs while eliminating a production pinch point in the facility. This project is part of an ongoing effort to modernize this facility and reduce its operating costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Container Baler Upgrade & Monitoring Results |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
May 9, 2012
MRF Upgrade – Container Line Retrofit
This project involves a rebuild of Northumberland’s container line and installation of an optical sorter for plastics. The project will cost approximately $950,000 and generate almost $240,000 in savings annually. The CIF will contribute up to $313,000 or 42% of project costs.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Upgrade - Container Line Retrofit |
| Blog Post | October 21, 2016: Measure Twice and Cut Once: A Tried and True Philosophy |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
February 15, 2017
MRF Upgrade – Fibre Line
Install new bottom feed conveyors and baler to improve the fiber handling efficiency of fiber handling in place of non-automated loader. Modify disk screens to improve the ONP #8 quality.
| Documents | Final Report: ONP Quality Improvements and Automated OCC/OBB Baling System |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | |
December 1, 2011
MRF Upgrade – Oversized Plastic
Install new equipment and bunker at the London MRF designed to capture 200 tonnes per year of oversized plastics currently going to residue. Captured material will be marketed for additional revenue.
| Documents | Final Report: London MRF Upgrade - Oversized Plastics |
| Blog Post | November 17, 2016: Marketing Oversized Plastic Containers from London’s MRF |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
December 31, 2016
MRF Upgrades
Upgrade sort lines; make other minor improvements for improved MRF efficiency to reduce overtime, unscheduled downtime and processing backlogs while considering feasibility of new MRF construction. Costs shared between CIF, QWS and their contractor.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
February 19, 2013
MRF Upgrades
Efficient operations at the Armour Township MRF, located in the village of Burk’s Falls, was hampered by ongoing and increasingly expensive repairs to their skid steer and baler. The CIF has provided $12,000 or 25% of the funds required to replace the aged equipment to allow the Township to minimize their operating costs. A payback of 7 years is expected.
| Documents | Final Report: Tri-R Landfill, Recycling and Reuse Centre |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
January 1, 2012
MRF Upgrades for Plastics – Optical Sorter
Halton Region recently completed a master plan and committed to the addition of 3-7 plastics as part of their new program. The CIF will commit $580,000 or 48% of the estimated cost of the new initiative to be allocated to necessary infrastructure upgrades and promotion and education with an anticipated payback of under 2 yrs.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Upgrades for Plastics - Optical Sort |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #631.11 Project #631.5 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
October 23, 2018
MRF Weigh Scale
The Township of Strong has no weigh scales at its landfill or mrf. Purchase of a portable weigh scale will allow Township staff to confirm outgoing bale weights and revenue reimbursements from their broker. The CIF contributed 49% or $1,159 to this project.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Innovations: Transfer Station Upgrade |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #581.11 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | |
September 16, 2011
Multi-Municipal Recycling Program Development
Completed project to examine the potential to develop a cooperative BB recycling program in the eastern Lake Superior area; undertaken by the CIF at the request of the Town of Wawa.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Program Implementation Evaluation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Regional Cooperation | |
January 1, 2011
Multi-Municipal Waste Recycling Plan - Carleton Place, Mississippi Mills, Beckwith, Drummond/North Elmsley, Montague
Development of a co-operative Waste Recycling Plan as per as best practice laid out by Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Final Report: "Moving Forward" A Waste Recycling Strategy for The Townships of Beckwith, Drummond/North Elmsley, Montague and the Towns of Carleton Place and Mississippi Mills |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
July 18, 2012
Multi-Municipal Waste Recycling Plan - Dufferin
Development of a co-operative Waste Recycling Plan as per as best practice laid out by Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy for Dufferin County |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
February 21, 2012
Multi-Municipal Waste Recycling Plan - Dysart et al, Minden Hills, Algonquin Highlands, Highlands East
Development of a co-operative Waste Recycling Plan as per as best practice laid out by Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Final Report: Municipal Waste Recycling Strategy for the Municipalities of Haliburton County |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
January 1, 2012
Multi-Municipal Waste Recycling Plan - East Ferris, Powasson, Chisholm
Development of a co-operative Waste Recycling Plan as per as best practice laid out by Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy for East Ferris, Powassan, and Chisholm |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
March 25, 2015
Multi-Municipal Waste Recycling Plan - Kenora and Dryden
Development of a co-operative Waste Recycling Plan as per as best practice laid out by Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #529.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
December 1, 2011
Multi-Municipal Waste Recycling Plan - Malahide, Bayham, Central Elgin
Development of a co-operative Waste Recycling Plan as per as best practice laid out by Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Management Master Plan for Bayham, Central Elgin, and Malahide |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
February 9, 2012
Multi-Municipal Waste Recycling Plan - McNab/Braeside, Horton
Development of a co-operative Waste Recycling Plan as per as best practice laid out by Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy for McNab/Braeside and Horton |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
January 5, 2012
Multi-Municipal Waste Recycling Plan - Strong, Magnetawan
Development of a co-operative Waste Recycling Plan as per as best practice laid out by Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The Township of Strong Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Municipality of Magnetawan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
January 1, 2012
Multi-Municipal Waste Recycling Plan - York
Development of a co-operative Waste Recycling Plan as per as best practice laid out by Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority).
| Documents | Final Report: SM4RT Living Plan: Integrated Waste Management Master Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
November 24, 2013
Multi-res
Install 100 new carts, inventory all buildings, stickers, P&E.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #565.4 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
January 1, 2010
Multi-res P&E
CIF developed printed materials to promote recycling in the multi-res sector.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | Multi-Residential | |
June 30, 2010
Multi-Res: RFID Integration with On-Board Weigh Scales
Peel Region will integrate RFID technology on garbage & recycling containers with on-board weigh scales on all collection vehicles. The overall project goal is to position the region to monitor generation quantities and implement a user pay system for multi-residential waste collection.
| Documents | Final Report: RFID Integration with On-Board Weigh Scales |
| Blog Post | July 6, 2018: Using RFID Waste Collection Data to Find & Target Poor Multi-Residential Performers |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Policy | |
August 23, 2018
Multi-residential (MR) Community Housing Recycling Rooms
Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) is North America’s largest social housing agency with 58,000 units in 330 buildings. Project to create recycling rooms in 25 buildings by retrofitting moving rooms; includes improving security, upgrading ventilation systems and lighting, installing bumpers, convex mirrors, signage etc.
Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) delivered an initiative to increase recycling rates in some of its high-rise buildings. At project onset, diversion was 10-15% and recycling carts were kept outside. The project added recycling rooms to 25 TCHC buildings to increase blue box diversion to 20% or higher, and create a more accessible space for tenants. Weight-based monitoring and superintendent reporting was used to measure progress.
| Documents | Final Report: TCHC Recycling Room Pilot Project |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Multi-Residential | Operations | |
February 11, 2015
Multi-residential (MR) Containers
Implement E&E best practice on MR collection containers. Quinte Waste Solutions implemented best practices at its multi-residential buildings, which service approximately 5,000 households. This project included adding new and replacing damaged recycling carts, re-labelling carts and distributing new promotion and education materials to tenants and building staff, and adding new customized bins for cardboard and glass.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | Multi-Residential | Operations | |
October 31, 2011
Multi-residential (MR) Performance Indicators
Develop MR best practice benchmarks.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipal Multi-residential Recycling Performance Indicators: Costs & Recovery Numbers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
May 22, 2013
Multi-Residential Audits in Toronto
A series of seasonal waste audits to understand current behaviour in multi-residential buildings and monitor/measure the effectiveness of selected multi-residential P&E campaigns and targeted training for selected building superintendents.
In this two-part project, the City of Toronto delivers a comprehensive series of waste composition studies to better understand its MR demographic, and pilots the CIF Recycling Workshop for Superintendents and Property Managers. The municipality, which provides waste management services to 4,500 buildings in a city where 55% dwellings are within multi-residential complexes, offered two half-day workshops where attendees were provided with knowledge, tools, resources and encouragement to increase diversion. The workshop was promoted via mailed and hand delivered invitation (2,100 in total), an advertisement in an industry magazine, and on the City’s website. In a post-workshop evaluation, a vast majority of the 39 attendees indicated the workshop was useful. The report includes recommendations to improve attendance.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Audits & Superintendent Training Sample Promotional Materials |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Communication/Education | Composition Studies | Multi-Residential | |
February 2, 2016
Multi-Residential Best Practices
Dufferin County has 80 multi-res buildings. Dufferin County will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Implementing Multi-Residential Best Practices |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #619.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
February 2, 2014
Multi-Residential Best Practices
Wellington County has 105 multi-res buildings. Wellington County will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
December 12, 2015
Multi-Residential Best Practices - Cornwall
The City of Cornwall has 200 multi-res buildings. Cornwall will implement multi-res best practices including: complete site visits, update database, increase recycling cart capacity, develop and deliver new P&E materials.
Alongside the implementation of standard best practices (creating and maintaining a database, benchmarking and monitoring, improving bin capacity, and providing P&E materials), the City of Cornwall’s MR initiative increased collection frequency, went to a single stream program, increased materials accepted, and focused on plastic packaging P&E. In addition, Cornwall uses a rebate system for property managers to encourage recycling participation. Over the course of this initiative, the municipality increased recycling capacity by 32% and the number of units participating by 72.5%.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-residential Recycling: Implementing Best Practices |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #617.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Blue Box Resources | Multi-Residential | |
November 29, 2015
Multi-Residential Best Practices - Phase 2
Peterborough will continue with work begun under Project 174 to add recycling capacity, produce a recycling handbook and develop a workshop for building managers and superintendents.
| Documents | Final Report: Implementing Multi-Residential Best Practices: Phase 2 |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #174 Project #565.7 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
January 6, 2013
Multi-residential Cart Purchase
The Town of Smith Falls will purchase 98 – 360 litre carts for use in Multi-res buildings to coincide with expansion of collection of new material (plastics 3-7) roll out in 2011. Carts were purchased co-operatively with neighbouring municipalities and through the CIF cart tender to decrease program cost.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | Multi-Residential | |
September 28, 2011
Multi-Residential Container Density Factors
Visual inspections at MR buildings to determine average density factors & benchmark recycling performance.This report outlines the method and variables considered in the development of a tool to assist municipalities in benchmarking and measuring multi-residential recyclables in the absence of weight scale data (per building and overall).
| Documents | Final Report: Container Density Factors |
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| Categories | Multi-Residential | Operations | |
January 1, 2010
Multi-Residential Contamination Abatement P&E Campaign
A study designed to quantify the extent to which the approach of repeated P&E messaging brings residents into alignment with the requested set out behaviour at multi-residential buildings to minimize residue rates and lower blue box costs. A cost benefit analysis will be completed. If the approach proves to be a practice that helps to minimize contamination, a better practice guide will be developed.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Contamination Abatement Promotion & Education Campaign |
| Blog Post | December 18, 2019: Quinte Enlists Residents to Shift Black Plastic & Coffee Cups from Blue Box to Garbage |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Communication/Education | Composition Studies | Contamination | Multi-Residential | |
March 13, 2022
Multi-Residential Curotto Can Collection Vehicles
Expand collection services to all multi-residential sites in the City of Guelph to improve diversion in a cost contained manner and test the efficacy of curotto can vehicles as a tool for early detection and correction of contamination issues in cart-based programs.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling Utilizing a Curotto Can Collection Vehicle |
| Blog Post | May 20, 2021: New approach improves Multi-Residential recycling August 28, 2019: Curotto Cans: Technology Helps Guelph Cost-Effectively Improve Diversion |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Contamination | Multi-Residential | |
June 28, 2021
Multi-Residential Front-End Bin Gravity Lock Study
A pilot study designed to quantify the extent to which using gravity locks minimizes contamination rates and lowers recycling service costs for Multi-residential buildings using Front End Loading (FEL) bins. A cost benefit analysis will be completed. If the gravity locks prove to be a practice that helps to minimize contamination, a better practice guide will be developed.
| Documents | Final Report: Gravity Locks - Contamination Abatement Study |
| Blog Post | June 8, 2018: It’s not one or the other…experience shows P&E & operational re-enforcements must go hand in hand November 1, 2019: Doing battle with contamination? Peel Region just completed a study on gravity locks you need to read! |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contamination | Multi-Residential | |
November 20, 2019
Multi-Residential Project Debriefing Series
CIF has invested $2.8M in an effort to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Multi-Residential (MR) recycling programs. Projects focused on the implementation of a series of practical, time-saving tools for the MR sector to assist municipalities in meeting best practices in “optimization of operations in collections and processing”.
| Documents | Final Report: A Review of CIF Multi-Residential Projects from 2009 to 2011: Key Learnings and Future Directions |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Multi-Residential | |
February 12, 2017
Multi-Residential Recycling FEL Container Wrap Pilot
A pilot project to determine the efficacy of vinyl wraps on front end loading bins as a P&E tool used to help increase recycling know-how thereby achieving increased diversion and decreased residue. The extent, to which the vinyl wraps lower the incidence of graffiti due to its anti-graffiti sealant will also be measured.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Recycling FEL Container Wrap Pilot (20mb) |
| Blog Post | November 11, 2016: Best Practices…That’s a Wrap for Ottawa’s Multi-Res Promotion & Education December 14, 2018: ‘Tis the Season for Wrapping! |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Communication/Education | Contamination | Multi-Residential | |
December 17, 2018
Multi-Residential Service Standardization Initiative
This initiative is designed to standardize Multi-Residental (MR) collection amongst Quinte Waste Solutions (QWS) municipal partners. In-unit recycling bags (30-|) will be supplied to buildings to bring the storage capacity up to the recommended Best Practice levels. As part of the initiative, P&E tactics addressing residual and sorting issues will be developed and tested at four targeted sites. Baseline and post project recycling composition and tonnage data will be collected. Communications materials will be customizable and will later be made available to other municipalities.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi Residential Service Standardization Initiative- Quinte Waste Solutions |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Policy | |
September 28, 2018
Municipal By-Law Clause Considerations for Transition
Following completion of the CIF/M3RC Community Cooperation Letter, municipalities were seeking additional solutions to ensure the effective coordination and performance of all waste and diversion collection contractors. To respond to this request, by-law clauses were developed and vetted through a municipal steering committee consisting of members of the CIF Program Transition and Communications Subcommittee.
The by-law clauses attempt to address areas of concern expressed by many municipalities. However, these clauses are not a one size fits all as consideration needs to be given to whether the municipality is upper or lower tier and other by-laws in effect in the municipality. This memo outlines the approach that could be taken when enacting either all or some of the proposed by-law clauses related to waste and diversion streams and provides some additional considerations for staff to contemplate after reviewing the by-law clauses
| Documents | |
| Bulletins | |
| Related Projects | CIF Community Cooperation Letter |
| Categories | Policy | Transition | |
March 1, 2024
Municipal Collections Working Group
A CIF led working group to examine better practices in Blue Box collections and the implications of Bill 151 on municipal collections systems.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Collection | |
April 3, 2021
Municipal Contracts Database
The goal of this project was to provide an online resource to help increase the quality of recycling contracts, transfer better/best practices into tenders and agreements, reduce contract administration and associated costs, harmonize tender processes and documents for service providers, and potentially provide a training resource for anticipated contract management course (E&E project 341). It included:
- gathering, cataloguing, reviewing & annotating a database of municipal blue box contracts;
- developing a searchable index on a website to match user profiles;
- identifying preferred practices and removing municipal ID, not in challenges and opportunities in the documents; and,
- updating against current events i.e., CIF, revised practices, new requirements.
| Documents | Presentation: Municipal Model Contracts Tool Procurement |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | |
January 1, 2011
Municipal Depot Working Group
The Municipal Depot Working Group is a CIF led working group established to provide support and resources to municipalities operating or planning depots.
| Documents | Final Report: Comparison of Recycling Depot Costs Depot Costing Model |
| Blog Post | August 27, 2020: A comparison of municipal Blue Box recycling depot costs |
| Related Projects | Project #1133 Project #1134 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Depots | Transition | |
September 23, 2020
Municipal Enforcement Strategies in an IPR Environment
This study was undertaken at the request of municipalities based on input received during the CIF Strategic Planning consultation process. It will research policy and legal options available to municipalities, such as the use of fees, levies and municipal by-laws to control and/or respond to undesired impacts of producer collection schemes.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Transition | |
April 28, 2023
Municipal MRF Working Group
This working group is comprised of 8 to 10 municipal representatives who meet regularly to share and discuss useful information. The goal is to develop tools and resources that will assist Ontario municipalities in gaining a thorough understanding and agreement of the true costs associated with the processing of residential blue box materials and strategies to minimize it.
| Documents | See MRF Category in the Project Archive |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | MRF | |
March 4, 2022
Municipal Multi-Residential Working Group
A CIF led Multi-Residential Working Group has been established to build upon the foundational aspects established through earlier CIF projects and engage municipalities in current work in this sector. The group will meet monthly to discuss the costs and program metrics involved in operating Multi-Residential Blue Box programs. This initiative will seek to help better plan, budget, and contract services. It will also begin to help deal with transitional issues resulting from enactment of the Waste-Free Ontario Act (Bill 151).
| Documents | |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Multi-Residential | |
March 4, 2022
Municipal Program Support
Earth’s Edge Inc. retained to investigate municipal blue box programs in Eastern Ontario in order to provide support to those communities in an effort to coordinate a joint tender or establish best practices and to meet with the proprietor of Beauman Waste Management operations to update the CIF on its current status.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #365 |
| Categories | Project Support | Regional Cooperation | |
February 24, 2011
Municipal Project Support
The Emerald Group retained to provide assistance to programs with project application development, program operations review and project implementation support.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Project Support | |
January 1, 2011
Municipal Recycling RFP Development Training Workshop
Develop and facilitate a municipal one day training course/ workshop outlining the Best Practices for the development of a municipal recycling collection, processing and marketing RFP.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Procurement | Training | |
December 31, 2015
Municipal Update on Waste Free Ontario Act (Bill 151)
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016, AMO and CIF hosted a workshop for municipal Blue Box recycling program staff to provide them with an initial overview of Bill 151, the Waste-Free Ontario Act. The event was attended in person by approximately 80 municipal staff with an additional 55 in attendance online.
| Documents | Final Report: Bill 151 Legislative Review Workshop |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Transition | |
December 31, 2016
Muskoka Transfer Stations and Landfill Solar Compactors
This project involves the installation of compaction systems for fibres and containers at three of Muskoka District’s busiest depots to reduce hauling costs. The system is expected to cost approximately $390,000 and achieve a project payback of approximately 7 years. The CIF will contribute approx $166,000 or 43% funding.
| Documents | Final Report: Compactors for Recyclable Material Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
May 12, 2015
Muskoka Transfer Stations Solar Compactors Project
This project involves the installation of two solar powered compactors at each of three different transfer stations operated by the District of Muskoka to improve hauling efficiencies of blue box recyclables. The compactors are solar powered and capable of 110V back up for periods where insufficient sunlight is available to meet load demand. The compactors are also equipped with wireless monitoring devices to keep staff informed of when bins need to be switched out. Installation of compactors at these sites is expected to reduce hauling costs by over $68,000/year with an expected project payback of approximately 6 years. $197,775 in funding was provided by the CIF for this value added system improvement.
| Documents | Final Report: Solar Powered Compactors for Recyclable Material Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Compactors | Innovation | |
February 8, 2012
Muti-Residential Promotion & Education Templates
Development of a Microsoft Word document template for use in promoting recycling in multi-residential buildings.
| Documents | Multi-Residential Recycling |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | Multi-Residential | |
February 12, 2017
Natural Gas Vehicles
CIF project to examine and review the use of natural gas as an alternative fuel for waste collection vehicles. Also includes the development of possible contract clauses and specifications for alternative fuel vehicle usage.
| Documents | Final Report: Alternate Fuel Collection Vehicles |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Collection | Innovation | |
January 1, 2010
Next Gen Recycling Technologies Study
The CIF is proposing to carry out an initiative to collect, consolidate, and distill information on next generation recycling collection and processing technologies.
Municipalities and their contractors have invested millions in capital assets that must be routinely upgraded to meet new operating challenges. The research and information sharing opportunities proposed as part of this initiative is of collective benefit to all municipalities and First Nations groups offering residential Blue Box recycling services.
| Documents | Final Report: Next Gen Technologies Appendix A: Long List of Technologies |
| Blog Post | December 3, 2020: Next generation technologies: Spotlight on in-bin cameras February 3, 2021: Next Generation Technologies: RFID for a targeted approach to Promotion & Education April 21, 2021: Robot combines hyperspectral vision with Artificial Intelligence for residential recycling |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
December 13, 2020
Niagara Public Space Recycling Program – Phase 1
Niagara Region in cooperation with its local municipalities is working on a major expansion of its recycling services into local BIA’s, arenas, public buildings, parks and more. This multi-year project received $55,207 in funding from the CIF representing 40% of the municipality’s funding request.
Installed 161 recycling bins in BIAs and parks throughout the Region supported by an intensive communication plan, including bin labels, posters, stickers and various media (i.e. websites, newsletters and newspaper articles). Waste audits conducted during pre, peak and post season. Program resulted in 93% capture rate for beverage containers and 72% for all recyclables. Experienced low contamination rate of less than 10%.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling Program |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
December 31, 2011
Noelville Landfill Recycle Depot Restructure
Upgrading the depot/transfer area for blue box recyclables at the Noelville Landfill. Project will allow for use of 3 roll-off bins for the collection and storage of recyclables. This will enable the municipality to lower transportation costs of the recyclables to the processing facility in Sudbury. The project included constructing concrete loading ramp, installing asphalt turning area and chain link fencing, adding 8 yd3 recycling bins, directional signage and P&E. Recyclable tonnage increased 13% and staffing costs decreased by 30%.
| Documents | Final Report: Upgrades to Noelville Transfer Station and Public Access Depots |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
February 2, 2015
Non-Eligible Source Planning Guide
CIF developed a "Non-Eligible Source Planning Guide" for staff to access and review many projects that CIF produced on how to manage blue box materials from non-eligible sources. It also included new learnings and topic areas to assist communities in planning for non-eligible sources decisions.
| Documents | Non-Eligible Source Planning Guide |
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| Categories | Non-Eligible Sources | Transition | |
May 1, 2024
Non-Eligible Sources Cooperative Procurement Guidance & Workshops
Post-transition (January 1, 2026, onward), producers will no longer allow non-eligible source blue box material to be collected with eligible source blue box material. As a result, communities who wish to continue providing blue box service to non-eligible sources will need to make appropriate arrangements. Some communities may find it difficult to find a collector, hauler and/or processor for their non-eligible sourced material given the low quantities collected, low density of non-eligible collection stops/depot locations which may be a significant cost driver (e.g., 3,000 non-eligible sources spread over 2,500 square kilometers) and lack of local service providers. It is also expected that the costs for this service will increase beyond residential program costs, given the limited number of stops and quantities to be collected (i.e., number of stops and quantities are too small to earn the same ‘bulk pricing’ rates achieved through the residential BB program).
To establish adequate service options under the above scenario, CIF looked at past projects to develop a cooperative procurement process (e.g., RFP templates, contract clause considerations) that can enable communities within a catchment area to jointly seek bids through Non-Eligible Source Cooperative Procurement efforts. This project produced a guide, sample RFP and workshop.
| Documents | Deliverables: |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Non-Eligible Sources | Regional Cooperation | Transition | |
May 21, 2024
North Bay MRF Container Line
North Bay has been upgrading their existing MRF. This project focuses on installation of a new container line and expansion of their collected materials to include 3-7 plastics. Total project costs are $235,000 with CIF contributing 41% of costs.
| Documents | Final Report: City of North Bay Container Sorting Line |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
August 15, 2012
North Shore Lake Superior Recycling Study
The objective of this project was to review the options for implementing blue box recycling along the North Shore of Lake Superior from Dorion to Manitouwadge. The evaluation considered a number of program implementation options for the participating communities. The recommended approach is to share the cost of a vehicle for curbside collection in the communities and cooperate on the storage and transportation of the recyclables to the processing facility. The report has been forwarded to the participating communities for consideration by the respective councils.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Program Implementation Evaluation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Regional Cooperation | |
July 3, 2009
North Western Ontario Project Support
In 2014, the CIF was directed by MIPC to focus efforts on regionalization projects. The CIF retained the services of Rick Denyes to assist the municipalities of Terrace Bay, Schreiber Bay, Thunder Bay, Marathon and the group in the Wawa area to determine if a suitable waste shed related collection and processing system could be developed similar to the one established to the west of the area.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Project Support | Regional Cooperation | |
December 31, 2014
North-Eastern Ontario Service Delivery Model Option Development & Evaluation
The objective of the North-Eastern Ontario: Service Delivery Model Option Development & Evaluation is to complete a detailed analysis of cost implications and feasibility of the recommendations outlined in the MIPC commissioned Study of the Optimization of the Blue Box Material Processing System in Ontario (June 2012). Local analysis will be applied and the interest level of neighbouring municipalities to engage in a share cost arrangement for collection, consolidation, transfer and hauling will be determined. The total study cost is $38,000, and CIF will fund 100% of the cost.
| Documents | Final Report: Optimization of Recycling Service Delivery in the North-Eastern Ontario Watershed |
| Blog Post | May 5, 2017: Does Multi-municipal Collaboration Improve Your Negotiating Position? |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Models | Regional Cooperation | |
October 1, 2018
Northumberland County Curbside Glass Collection Pilot
This project involves testing the cost and effectiveness of source separating Blue Box glass at the curb to eliminate the negative impacts on MRF processing and to evaluate the implications on collection costs and marketing revenue. The CIF contributed up to $44,265 or 50% of costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Segregated Curbside Glass Collection Pilot |
| Blog Post | September 27, 2019: Methodology in Northumberland County’s Segregated Glass Collection Pilot |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Material Separation | |
September 18, 2019
Northumberland MRF Equipment Assessment & Options Analysis
This project involves assessing the market value of Northumberland’s MRF in anticipation of the possible transition of the BBPP in Ontario.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | October 2, 2018: CIF Completes MRF Equipment Valuation in Northumberland County |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Transition | Valuation | |
July 23, 2018
Northumberland Transition to Two-Stream from Bags
The County of Northumberland is transitioning from a bag-based single-stream program to two-stream blue box collection. This project provides assistance in purchasing blue boxes and delivering a promotion and education campaign to usher in the new program.
| Documents | Final Report: Northumberland County Switch to Dual Stream Box Collection |
| Blog Post | August 30, 2018: Two Stream Collection as a Solution to Troublesome Fiber Markets May 1, 2020: Northumberland shifts to dual stream recycling |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Single/Dual Stream | |
August 17, 2022
Online Markets Directory
Reclay StewardEdge is proposing a two phase project, firstly evaluating municipal interest in having such an online tool and determining if brokers would be willing to contribute to this directory. The second phase is the actual development of the tool and some initial updating of the directory. Reclay StewardEdge will only proceeded with the second phase if the first phase is successful.
If phase 2 is successful, and if there is municipal interest and broker interest in continuing with the work, Reclay StewardEdge will submit a proposal for long-term support and maintenance of the project.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
December 31, 2015
Ontario Blue Box Current State Fibre Study
With the recent loss of domestic ONP recycling markets, a review of the current state of the fibre markets was conducted in cooperation with Stewardship Ontario to determine if municipalities and their programs would be potentially compromised both financially and operationally. This piece of work is expected to be the first of a two phase project looking at what action, if any, may be necessary from a MRF design and marketing perspective.
| Documents | Final Report: Ontario Blue Box Paper Fibres |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | End Markets | MRF | |
December 31, 2011
Open Space
Extension of Nestle Waters and City of Sarnia pilot.
Installation of public space bins at 3 parks and 3 arenas and 8 convenience stores focusing on beverage container recycling. Baseline and post waste audits conducted. Public awareness campaign implemented resulting in beverage container recovery rates of average 75% at parks, 73% at arenas and 84% at convenience stores. Deals with contamination rates. Describes bin selection process.
| Documents | Final Report: City of Sarnia Public Spaces Recycling Pilot Project |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
June 30, 2010
Open Space Recycling
Killaloe Haggarty and Richards has been advancing their overall diversion program. This project focuses on installation of six open space recycling containers to increase the blue box program exposure and increase their collected materials. Total project costs are $12,000 with CIF contributing 42% of costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
June 9, 2015
Open Space Recycling in Canada
Subsequent to completion of Project 202, CIF Projects Committee requested that an additional scan be completed to determine if any further research on better practices in open space recycling, supported by quantified analysis, had been conducted by municipalities across Canada but not published. This project supports the findings of Project 202 in that while many municipalities have open space recycling programs, the number that have quantitatively evaluated their performance is limited.
Survey of 20 municipalities in Ontario and Canada to determine what public space recycling and measurement had been conducted. Concluded that in Ontario very little has been done to measure the efficiency of open space recycling program, with the exception of the Region of York and the City of Toronto. Summary table provided identifying municipality and describing public space recycling program, types of containers used and measurement activities, if any.
| Documents | Project Synopsis Best Practices Review Part 2 (Open Space Recycling) |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
January 1, 2011
Open Space Recycling Literature Search
A literature search was conducted on all existing open space recycling programs. The data was reviewed to determine if the search identified any “better practices” in public space recycling. “Review of Literature Search Results” report attached. The project resulted in a compilation of studies and reports on open space recycling. This information was evaluated and consolidated under Project #202.
| Documents | Final Report: Review of Literature Search Results |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #202 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
January 1, 2010
Operations Review of Niagara Region MRF
The purpose of this study was to review the performance of Niagara Region’s MRF operations relative to similar operations to provide guidance to the Region in decisions related to contract management of the facility, long term planning in light of the results of the MIPC Optimization Study and future investments. The cost of the study was completed at a cost of under $15,000.
| Documents | Final Report: Operations Review of Regional Municipality of Niagara's Material Recycling Facility |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Valuation | |
June 19, 2013
Opt-Out Community Steps to Continue Curbside Collection from Non-eligible Sources
The CIF developed a resource to help opt-out curbside communities understand and prepare for the process they need to take to continue servicing non-eligible sources during transition (until December 31, 2025) with Circular Materials (CM) service providers.
| Documents | |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Non-Eligible Sources | Transition | |
October 13, 2023
Optical Sorter
Install a two-valve TiTech Polysort Optical sortation system in the MRF.
| Documents | Final Report: Review of the City of Hamilton Optical Sorting System |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Innovation | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
March 31, 2011
Optical Sorting
Improve container line in MRF with optical sorting and film recovery system.
| Documents | Final Report: Optical Sorting System |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
October 17, 2013
Optimization of Grey Highlands and Area Depots
This project involves an analysis of depot based collection and processing options for Grey Highlands and surrounding municipalities and funding of supporting infrastructure. The expected cost of the required infrastructure is approximately $125,000 and has a projected payback of 7 years. The CIF will contribute up to $31,250 or 25% of project costs and complete the wasteshed analysis at its own cost.
| Documents | Final Report: Optimization of Grey Highlands' Recycling Depots |
| Blog Post | June 15, 2017: Compaction Cuts Depot Costs in Grey Highlands New FEL Bin Collection System |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | Depots | |
June 15, 2017
Optimizing Stratford’s Blue Box Program – Part 2
Program to evaluate & improve recycling at multi-residential facilities and depot. Previous work completed under Stewardship Ontario Effectiveness & Efficiency Program, E&E Project #76, focused on developing revised communications material for the City of Stratford’s recycling program. During this project the need to upgrade multi-residential recycling was identified.
| Documents | Final Report: City of Stratford Multi-Residential Program Enhancement Project |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | Multi-Residential | |
December 2, 2011
Options Analysis for Strong Township MRF
Strong Township requested the CIF’s assistance to complete an ‘options analysis’ that would allow it to position itself in light of Bill 151 and consider partnership opportunities available in the area. The total cost of the analysis was under $7k.
| Documents | Final Report: Material Recovery Facility Review |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Valuation | |
September 28, 2016
Ottawa Collection and Diversion Options Analysis
This project seeks to develop an integrated curbside waste collection model for the consideration of future collection service options for the City of Ottawa in light of the transition to 100% EPR of the Blue Box program.
| Documents | Integrated Curbside Waste Collection Model Development: Technical Memorandum Synopsis Collection Options Analysis Model |
| Blog Post | July 17, 2020: Comparing Collection Policies: Cost and Diversion Impact |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Models | Policy | Transition | |
February 28, 2020
P&E Campaign for Expanded Materials
Provide funding to develop P&E materials to support the addition of new plastic packaging to the blue box program. The additional materials are added as a result of utilizing the new London MRF for processing. The materials developed will be transferable to other programs using the London MRF.
| Documents | Final Report: Promotion and Education Support for Expanded Materials Recycling Program |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 23, 2014
P&E Engagement to Establish Multi-Residential Best Practices
A City of Toronto Multi-Residential (MRes) Promotion & Education (P&E) Campaign to improve diversion and reduce contamination. This project will establish and prove out best practices for MRes P&E strategies. A tool-kit will be created and the campaign artwork made available through the CIF website for other municipalities seeking to address similar issues.
| Documents | Final Report: Promotion & Education Engagement to Establish Multi-Residential Best Practices |
| Blog Post | March 29, 2019: Recycling in the Multi-Residential (MR) sector: three opportunities to improve performance |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Communication/Education | Multi-Residential | |
October 2, 2019
P&E Enhancement
Pilot Promotion and Education project (3 sites to test). Development of a web portal for the promotion of the recycling program. Web site includes a waste exchange element as well as program information. Usage of the website will be monitored to determine the effectiveness of the tool.
| Documents | Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #198, Project #200, Project #214 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | |
September 1, 2010
P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery - Admaston/Bromley
As part of the objectives of the CIF, which include a proactive approach to assisting municipalities to implement best practices in blue box recycling, the CIF provided financial assistance to the Township of Admaston/Bromley for Promotion and Education to increase their waste diversion rate and assist in capturing more plastic packaging in its blue box recycling program.
| Documents | Final Report: Promotion & Education Initiative |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
March 5, 2013
P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery - Alfred and Plantagenet
The CIF provided the Township of Alfred and Plantagenet with $4,000 to undertake a campaign to increase plastic packaging recovery.
| Documents | Report: P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #604.12 |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
January 27, 2016
P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery - Essex-Windsor
EWSWA needed to reassess P&E strategies, goals and tactics in order to increase residential participation, increase recycling capture rates and reduce box contamination through best practices. With the addition of mixed plastic to their recycling program and the distribution of a free new larger blue box to handle the increase in materials, the need for clear, succinct messaging, a consistent message across media and continuity throughout the campaigns was evident. CIF supported this initiative.
| Documents | Report: Promotion & Education to Support Mixed Plastic Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #624.3 |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 8, 2015
P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery - Kawartha Lakes
This plastics recovery project was employed to deliver a new method of promoting recycling messaging within the City of Kawartha Lakes and enhance current promotion & education (P&E) efforts. Funding was utilized for the graphic design and display of vehicle wraps for City Waste Management vehicles. Also, funding was utilized for the development of depot signage at the five (5) public drop-off points at the City’s open landfill sites.
| Documents | Report: P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 22, 2014
P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery - Kingston
In the spring of 2011, the City of Kingston added mixed plastic packaging (#1- #7) to its blue box recycling program. A promotion and education initiative followed the introduction, as well as separate promotion and education initiatives in 2012, aimed at informing Kingston residents that a series of new plastics could now be recycled in Kingston. CIF Project 640.4 looked to build upon the previous years’ promotion and education initiatives with a goal towards increasing the capture rate of the targeted plastics and also decreasing the amount of plastics sent to landfill.
| Documents | Report: P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
April 30, 2014
P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery - London
The City completed a P&E campaign with the objective of increasing the capture of plastic packaging from residences through the Blue Box program. The project scope included two areas of focus for increased awareness of plastic recycling: 1: traditional media advertising and 2: community based awareness initiatives.
| Documents | Report: P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
November 29, 2015
P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery - North Dundas
The Continuous Improvement Fund provided the Township of North Dundas with technical assistance and a grant to fund 60% of the costs to an upset limit of $2,500 for the development of a communication plan for promotion and education of the Blue Box program aimed at increasing plastic capture found throughout various rooms within a typical household.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
December 12, 2015
P&E Initiatives for Plastic Packaging Recovery - Quinte
An informational campaign designed to capture more desirable plastic containers in the blue box.
| Documents | Report: Plastics Campaign |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 24, 2014
P&E Shop Support
The Letter M Marketing was hired by the CIF to provide ongoing support for the online P&E Shop which was developed under CIF Project #192. This included support for the login system, database, user support and any necessary changes, as well as hosting fees.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #192 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Communication/Education | |
December 31, 2014
P&E Training Course Development
Promotion & Education curriculum development & classroom instruction for a course to be delivered. Course content will focus on the fundamental elements of building and executing a strategic recycling P&E initiative as well as how to measure, monitor and report project outcomes.
2015: Second delivery of CIF’s P&E course. The P&E course content will focus on the fundamental elements of building and executing a strategic recycling P&E initiative as well as how to measure, monitor and report project outcomes.
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Communication/Education | Training | |
December 31, 2014
Partnership Programs
Research available federal and provincial partnership programs.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Project Support | |
January 1, 2010
Peel Cart Program Roll-Out: P&E Campaign
A multi-media P&E campaign to coincide with the launch of the Region of Peel’s cart based collection program in January 2016. This P&E campaign includes design, development and production of a variety of marketing tools including (but not limited to) online and print advertisements. A significant focus of the campaign will be residue management, which is critical to cart based program success.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Contamination Digital Marketing Campaign |
| Blog Post | July 28, 2016: Automated Cart Collection: What We Have Learned? October 26, 2018: Use your digital media to get your message out: Peel did! June 28, 2019: Digital Communication: Can It Help Municipalities Change Resident Set out Behaviours? |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | |
March 13, 2022
Peel MRF QC Station Installation
This project involves the design and installation of three quality control stations in the Peel Region materials recycling centre. The new stations will allow Peel’s contractor to better control end product quality for the corrugated cardboard and baled materials streams (in particular aluminum) and reduce the loss of recyclables into the residue stream. The new stations are expected to reduce the amount of residue outbound in the recyclables streams by over 170 tonnes per year and capture an additional 1,700 tonnes of recyclables from the residue thereby reducing disposal costs and improving revenues. The project is expected to have a payback of approximately 2 years and received $172,232 in CIF funding representing 49% of project costs.
| Documents | Final Report: Material Recovery Facility QC Station Installation |
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| Related Projects | Project #566.4 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
November 19, 2013
Peel Multi-Residential Residue Management Plan & P&E Campaign
A multi-faceted P&E campaign to address MR residue issues. Posters, lobby displays, door hangers and building newsletters will be employed to educate residents about the most prevalent contamination problems: 1) Blue Box material inside a tied plastic bag, and 2) tied and loose unsolicited materials. P&E will address proper set-out standards and encourage small changes to positively impact the success of their recycling efforts.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Residue Management and Promotion & Education Campaign |
| Blog Post | June 9, 2016: Managing Residue in Multi-res Buildings: What’s the Best Solution? |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | Contamination | Multi-Residential | |
August 23, 2018
Peel Region MRF Upgrades
MRF upgrade to accommodate the introduction of Mixed Rigid Plastics and additional tonnage. The upgrade will significantly reduce residual rates while allowing the opportunity to harmonize the GTA Blue Box programs.
| Documents | Final Report: Material Recovery Facility Upgrades |
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
September 28, 2018
Perfecting Indoor Public Space Recycling
$50k in funding was provided to the Town of Whitby to support implementation of an improved public building recycling program. The new containers and enhanced promotional materials are expected to increase diversion by 20% while reducing contamination. This project is expected to assist the CIF in developing better practices in this area of blue box recycling. Total project costs are budgeted at over $123,000.
Introduced 31 standardized multi-port receptacles in 9 town facilities to replace non-uniform containers, then tested best practices for public space recycling and measured performance. Surveys and focus groups conducted and baseline and post waste audits conducted. Great P&E and signage tools. Costs provided. Achieved average waste diversion of 42.67% relative to overall facility waste diversion measured to be 13.85%.
| Documents | Final Report: Perfecting Indoor Public Space Recycling |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | Operations | Public Spaces | |
December 29, 2011
Peterborough Transfer Station Solar Compactors
This project involves the installation of solar powered compactors at two of the County of Peterborough’s transfer stations to improve hauling efficiencies for fibres collected at the two sites. The compactors are solar powered and will be equipped with remote monitoring capability to allow staff to determine when the bins actually require replacement. This feature optimizes hauling frequency and reduces operating costs by avoiding the cost of hauling partially filled bins typical of pre-scheduled automatic pick-ups. Installation of compactors at the two sites is expected to reduce hauling costs by over $10,000/year with a project payback of approximately 4 years.
| Documents | Final Report: Peterborough Transfer Station Solar Compactors |
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| Categories | Compactors | Innovation | |
January 31, 2011
Plastic Film Study
Determination of the cost and performance implications of managing film plastic in the Hamilton MRF. This study also investigates alternative collection options, such as depot or return to retail, and whether or not they offer a viable and less costly alternative to the current system.
| Documents | Final Report: Comparison of Current Systems Costs & Alternative Scenarios for Managing Plastic Film in the City of Hamilton |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
September 28, 2018
Plastic Low Pressure Intrusion Technology
Development of equipment that will use mixed plastic waste material to produce durable, waterproof, insect and rot resistant deck, fencing and other materials.
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| Categories | End Markets | Innovation | |
January 9, 2014
Plastics Market Analysis
The closure of Entropex in the summer of 2016 raised concerns about the stability of the current BB plastics markets. This project was commissioned by the CIF at a cost of under $20,000 to provide municipalities with up to date info on current markets and their stability.
| Documents | Final Report: Status of Post-Consumer Plastic Packaging Recycling in the USA and Canada Addendum: The Impact of Imports and Exports on US and Canadian Markets for Recycled Plastic |
| Blog Post | May 11, 2018: Market Trends for Post-Consumer Plastics |
| Related Projects | Project #783 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
June 11, 2017
Plastics Market Update
Subsequent to introduction of the Green Fence by China, LOM consulting was contracted to complete a review of current plastics markets to assess the risk to MRF operators.
| Documents | Final Report: The Status of the Markets for Post-Consumer Plastic Packaging Recycling in the USA and Canada |
| Blog Post | May 11, 2018: Market Trends for Post-Consumer Plastics |
| Related Projects | Project #768 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
April 23, 2018
Plastics Project Support
Love Environmental was contracted to assist the CIF staff with coordination of various plastics related initiatives including development of the bi-monthly plastics teleconference calls for municipal stakeholders, project support related to the CIF’s thermoform and 3-7 plastics market development work and engagement activities with related stakeholders.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | End Markets | Project Support | |
December 31, 2012
Plastics RFP
A pilot project to process up to 25,300 tonnes per year of mixed plastics from Ontario recycling programs. Funded jointly with Stewardship Ontario, this project aims to source ‘other plastics’ (i.e. beyond numbers 1 and 2) for reprocessing with innovative technologies that may lead to a long-term solution for municipalities. Entropex (Sarnia) and EFS Plastics (Elmira) have been selected to process materials through the duration of this project through a public tendering process. The CIF and Stewardship Ontario will begin working with interested municipalities to start the project in 2010 running through 2011.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #132 Project #163 Project #175 |
| Categories | End Markets | Innovation | MRF | Post-Collection | |
December 11, 2014
Polystyrene Densification Project
Installation of a cold densification unit to process expanded polystyrene.
| Documents | Final Report: Polystyrene Densifier |
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| Categories | Innovation | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | |
May 7, 2012
Polystyrene Densifier Pilot
Toronto, like many municipalities, is encountering problems with the marketing of its curbside collected EPS. This pilot explored use of new technology to produce a marketable material. The CIF contributed $35,000 to this pilot.
| Documents | Final Report: Toronto's Expanded Polystyrene Densification and Marketing Pilot |
| Blog Post | July 13, 2018: CIF Pilot Project Confirms Expanded Polystyrene Recycling Possible but Challenging |
| Related Projects | Project #130 Project #731 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Material Separation | MRF | Operations | |
April 17, 2018
Preliminary Municipal Litter Analysis
Communities were seeking data on municipal litter quantities, composition and collection costs for ground and public space bin litter and specifically for blue box material litter. The Municipal Resource Recovery and Research Collaborative (M3RC) was also looking for municipality-wide litter data to assist with advocacy efforts. As a result, CIF created a Preliminary Municipal Litter Analysis that sought to:
- Develop a model to estimate the amount of municipal litter generated by category (i.e., non-blue box and blue box) and material type, as well as identify cost estimates for management of municipal litter and specifically blue box material litter;
- Compile community approaches, experiences and solutions regarding prevention and management of municipal litter; and,
- Provide a discussion and analysis to help guide future M3RC initiatives and identify next steps.
| Documents | Report, Slide Presentation |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Composition Studies | |
December 31, 2024
Preventative Maintenance Audit
In 2011, the CIF hired HMI Business Management Solutions to perform a review of the preventative maintenance procedures at Bluewater Recycling Association’s MRF.
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| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
September 7, 2011
Processing RFP Support
A project to assist the Township of Perry with drafting a new depot hauling and recyclables processing RFP.
| Documents | Final Report: RFP Development Support Request for Proposal: Transportation, Processing and Marketing of Recyclable Material |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Depots | Procurement | |
March 4, 2018
Procurement & Contract Management Support Services
In previous years, the CIF has funded municipalities to develop, test and adopt new clauses and better practices in procurement and contract management activities. In 2019, the CIF will continue to provide direct support and resources to assist municipalities with these important functions on an ‘as needed’ basis. A budget of $40,000 has been set for this purpose.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Procurement | |
December 31, 2019
Procurement & Contract Management Support Services (2020)
With the announcement of the Province’s plans to prepare to transition the Blue Box Program, demand for CIF support services associated with procurement and contract management activities has been at an all time high. With this in mind a budget of $15,000 has been set aside to assist municipalities preparing to transition contracted services.
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Procurement | |
March 14, 2021
Program Blueprints
Developed blueprints to examine program improvements in light of better and best practices.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box Recycling Program Generic Indexed Best Practice Assessment Reports |
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| Categories | Best Practices | |
January 1, 2010
Program Review
CIF managed project to evaluate and recommend BB program enhancements for consideration at the request of the proponents.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Program Development Plan |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2010
Project Savings Audit
In 2014, the CIF hired Clayton Sampson to complete a review and document reported financial impacts on a subset of completed CIF funded projects. The purpose of the review was to verify whether actual project outcomes were consistent with the benefits initially identified in the project applications. The projects were to be reviewed for numerical accuracy, qualitative learning, and any increase in diversion.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Project Support | |
December 4, 2014
Project Support
The CIF hired The Emerald Group for support on developing project applications for the City of Temiskaming Shores (Project #436) and the City of Kenora (Project #413), as well as editing various other project reports.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #413 |
| Categories | Project Support | |
June 19, 2012
Project Support – Love Environmental
Love Environmental contracted to assist CIF staff with managing three key projects including the London Southwestern Ontario Regional MRF (Project #146), Thermoset PET (Project #207) and Plastics RFP (Project #127). Associated activities included assisting in contract development, materials marketing, and coordination of communications with stakeholders and interested parties.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #127 Project #146 Project #207 |
| Categories | Project Support | |
January 1, 2010
Promotion & Education Initiatives
Improve diversion and participation rates amongst seasonal residents. P&E efforts will be implemented by a summer student for the municipality’s five depots.
| Documents | Final Report: Northern Bruce Peninsula - Small program P&E plan implementation |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
February 10, 2016
Promotion & Education Initiatives
Funding support for some new P&E initiatives for the City of Woodstock to promote its recycling program. The initiatives include signage for the collection vehicles, radio advertising and multi-residential materials.
| Documents | Final Report: P&E Plan Implementation |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 18, 2015
Promotion & Education Initiatives - Carleton Place
Delivery of a P&E campaign to educate residents on the recent changes to Carleton Place’s collection program (i.e., movement to single stream and expansion to the list of targeted materials).
| Documents | Final Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | |
April 20, 2016
Promotion and Education Campaign
The City of Ottawa will launch a multi-media campaign which includes the use of print, social media, online ads and electronic bill boards to improve resident knowledge of what can and can not be recycled. The objective will be to increase the capture of targeted materials such as aluminum and paper and decrease residual rates.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
December 20, 2015
Promotion of Expanded Recycling Program & Distribution of Large Curbside Containers
Norfolk County is expanding the types of material collected in its blue box system to include thermoform plastic containers. CIF is supporting Norfolk with the purchase and distribution of the blue boxes as well as new promotion and education material.
| Documents | Final Report: Promotion of Expanded Recycling Program & Distribution of Large Curbside Containers |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
February 13, 2013
Provincial Infrastructure Funding
Love Environmental to advocate potential partnerships for CIF and province.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Project Support | |
May 30, 2009
Provision of Expanded Polystyrene Processing Capacity
The CIF, in partnership with SO and CPIA, completed an REOI to secure expanded polystyrene processing capacity in the eastern Ontario area at the request of several municipalities in the area. HGC Management was selected as the preferred proponent to install an EPS densifier in their Belleville facility. A grant of $75,000 was provided to off-set the capital cost of new equipment and the CIF will be contributing up to $25,000 towards this project.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | |
April 23, 2013
Public Sector MRF Capacity and Capability Study
To provide individual municipal owners, The Association of Municipalities of Ontario, Toronto and Stewardship Ontario with comprehensive independent information on the capacity, capability, condition and expansion plans of public sector MRFs in Ontario.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Study Summary Report |
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| Related Projects | Project #179 Project #367 Project #398 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
January 1, 2011
Public Space Recycling
The City of St. Thomas is implementing an open space recycling program in the downtown area and a number of parks and public spaces throughout the City. Following and implementing best practice for open space recycling, the City will be installing collection containers, signage and undertaking a P&E campaign to promote the program to residents.
Phase 1 – Replace garbage containers in the downtown with twin bin recycling and garbage containers and monitor. Shows resulting 19% diversion, 97% capture and 43% contamination. Phase 2- install twin bins in the City’s largest park and 96 gallon wheelie bins to use during special events and monitor. Shows resulting 4% diversion, 21% capture and 21% contamination. Cost provided. Contamination was a problem. Chose only to collect containers in public space bins and not fibres.
| Documents | Final Report: City of St. Thomas Pubic Space Recycling |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
August 11, 2014
Public Space Recycling
Killarney wishes to extend its recycling program to its public space by purchasing five twinned recycling and garbage bins for placement in public areas. Previous public space recycling efforts resulted in illegal dumping, high contamination and unsightly litter. The placement of twinned bins will help to solve previous problems by being collected daily and being highly visible. The total project cost is approximately $10,100 and CIF is contributing 28% of the funds.
Twinned garbage and recycling bins provided along the main street (tourist area). Only focused on container recycling, no fibre recycling provided. Costs for bins provided. Visual audit checklist used to identify fullness of bins and contamination. Concluded that the new twin bins resulted in almost no contamination of recyclables, and also handle large amounts of litter.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling Project |
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| Related Projects | Project #639.11 Project #639.12 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
June 28, 2015
Public Space Recycling
The Town of Meaford operates two public depots in town. The CIF is providing approximately $3600, or 45% funding, to assist staff in upgrading signage at their sites to facilitate materials separation and instruction to facility users.
| Documents | Final Report: CIF Project #644.13 |
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| Related Projects | Project #644.9 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | Signage | |
April 19, 2013
Public Space Recycling - London
The City of London is continually expanding its recycling program into public space areas. This application includes the installation of tri-sort containers into their downtown core along existing collection routes. The 10 new containers will capture an additional 10 tonnes of recyclables annually. Project cost is approximately $20,000 and CIF provided $6,000.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling |
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| Related Projects | Project #558.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
December 12, 2015
Public Space Recycling - Peterborough
The City of Peterborough continues to develop its recycling system throughout its public spaces. This current project involves the twinning of garbage and container only recycling containers along local trails in the City. The project cost is expected to be approx $16,400 with CIF contributing up 41% of project costs.
Introduced recycling bins in trails in the City and followed public space best practices. Chose bins with convex lid and protective canopy to keep water and snow out. Conducted SWOT analysis on the bins and discuss signage and communications. Costs provided. No monitoring conducted.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling |
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| Related Projects | Project #565.4 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
January 18, 2012
Public Space Recycling Compaction Containers
Development of a public space recycling program though the City Downtown and waterfront areas as part of a redevelopment project. The program will utilize solar powered compaction bins for collection of materials to try the technology and lower costs for collection.
Installed 16 solar powered self-compacting Big Belly Bins for recyclables which has resulted in diverting 15% of recyclables in the downtown area over a 12 month period. On average each Big Belly was emptied 1.6 times a month saving on collection time and costs by 41%. The Big Belly has received excellent support from staff and the public.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
February 5, 2013
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Aurora
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: CIF Blue Box Subsidization Initiative |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
February 13, 2013
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Barrie
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Curbside Containers |
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| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
October 22, 2015
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Bluewater
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Curbside Container Project |
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| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
December 31, 2016
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Brantford
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: New Containers to Capture New Materials |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
July 9, 2014
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Chatham-Kent
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Recycling Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
April 16, 2015
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Chippewas of Nawash
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Increase Curbside Collection Capacity |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | First Nations Communities | |
April 4, 2013
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Cornwall
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Increase Curbside Collection Capacity |
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| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
February 23, 2015
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Dufferin
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Curbside Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
February 8, 2015
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - East Gwillimbury
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: CIF Blue Box Subsidization Initiative |
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| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
January 1, 2011
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Elizabethtown-Kitley
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Blue Box Distribution & Small program P&E plan implementation |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
September 26, 2015
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Essex Windsor
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Supply & Distribution of 22 Gallon Blue Boxes |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
March 7, 2013
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Georgina
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: CIF Blue Box Subsidization Initiative |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
August 28, 2014
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Killaloe, Hagarty, and Richards
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Blue Box Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
February 25, 2014
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - King
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: CIF Blue Box Subsidization Initiative |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
January 1, 2012
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - London
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Supply & Distribution of Large Curbside Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
January 6, 2013
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Muskoka
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Curbside Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
September 8, 2010
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Norfolk
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Curbside Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
September 16, 2011
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Orillia
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Curbside Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
January 11, 2012
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Sagamok Anishnawbek
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Curbside Containers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
December 12, 2014
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Simcoe
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: County of Simcoe Distribution and Diversion Results for Project #665.3 |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
January 30, 2013
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - South Stormont
Large curbside containers will be used to re-launch South Stormont’s recycling program. The increase in curbside collection storage capacity is expected to increase capture.
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Large Curbside Containers & Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
October 13, 2015
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Thames Centre
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: Supply & Distribution of 22 Gallon Blue Boxes |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
January 14, 2014
Purchase of Large Curbside Containers - Whitchurch-Stouffville
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified that providing large collection containers to residents is a best practice. These containers are to have a capacity of at least 22 gallons with a preference for 24 or 25 gallons (or larger)
| Documents | Report: CIF Blue Box Subsidization Initiative |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | |
January 1, 2012
QinetiQ Automated Waste Reclamation System Review
This project involves the review of a new sortation system with technology from QinetiQ in the UK in support of MRF design work underway in London and Bluewater.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | Project Support | |
January 1, 2011
Quinte Hot Cup Cost Analysis
This project involves determining the cost of managing hot beverage cups in a 2 stream MRF using various methodologies to arrive at the anticipated costs and better practices. The projected cost of the work will be approx. $29,000 and will be fully funded by CIF.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Contamination | End Markets | MRF | Post-Collection | |
October 3, 2018
Recyclable Material Cost Allocation Study
A three-phase study to develop a standardized methodology for evaluating the impact(s) of adding and/or removing materials to/from individual Blue Box programs. Phase 1 will result in the development of a set of allocation principles through broad public input. Phase 2 will result in a model based on the allocation principles established in the first step. Phase 3 will test the veracity of the principles and the model. Once finished, the model will be available for public use.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | October 5, 2018: How much does it cost to produce a higher paper grade? |
| Related Projects | Project #1029 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Material Separation | Models | |
February 15, 2019
Recyclables Density Report
2014 Density Report provides reference weights and volumes of various container and truck sizes/types along with average weights per cubic meter. Compacted and uncompacted density is provided where available. Sampled from all municipal groups.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Collection | Post-Collection | |
January 15, 2015
Recycle BC Lessons Learned
British Columbia municipalities were surveyed/interviewed to identify lessons learned with regards to their contracts or agreements with Recycle BC, the Producer Responsibility Organization responsible for managing the blue box program.
| Documents | Project synopsis |
| Presentation | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Transition | |
February 12, 2022
Recycling Collection & Processing Contract Template Update
The CIF maintains a list of better practice clauses for various RFPs and contracts. The database is in the process of being updated and improved based on feedback from stakeholders.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Procurement | |
October 19, 2015
Recycling Collection/Process Tender Development
A project to assist the EWSWA Group of municipalities with joint RFP, tender development.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Collection | Post-Collection | Procurement | |
November 27, 2017
Recycling Depot Signage Upgrade
Installation of signage at one of Meaford’s two public drop offs to improve sortation and general communication with the public. Developed signage at the entrance of the transfer station and in front of and/or hung on appropriate waste collection containers highlighting materials to be placed in that container. Has resulted in increased efficiency of movement at the site and the increased recognition of diversion.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Depot Signage Upgrade |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #644.13 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | Depots | Signage | |
April 19, 2013
Recycling Program Development
Implementation of a depot-based blue box recycling program in the municipality. Support also for promotion and education efforts and the purchase of blue boxes for the residents of the Township.
| Documents | Final Report: Assiginack Recycling Program |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | Communication/Education | |
October 29, 2013
Recycling Program Enhancements
Project to implement best practices and enhancements to improve the performance of Perth’s recycling program. The project is providing funding support for the development of a new tender that includes the change to 2 stream collection from multi stream collection and processing for an expanded list of recyclable materials. The implementation aspect of the project includes the distribution of a second large capacity recycling container, expanding the types of materials included in the program, promotion and education initiatives in regards to the program changes, and some benchmarking and monitoring to measure the impact of the changes on the system. The expected outcome is to improve the programs efficiency and boost the recovery rate by a minimum of 5%.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Diversion: Recycling Enhancement |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 30, 2013
Recycling Program Evaluation
Review existing Blue Box recycling program and recommend possible options for program enhancement; undertaken by the CIF at the request of the Municipality. Review of depot operations and costs, especially waterfront depot experiencing high contamination rates. Report recommends improving signage at depots with clear, easily read signs that emphasize graphics and remove waterfront depot and replace it with public space recycling containers in the BIA.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Program Review |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | Operations | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
Recycling Program Evaluation
Recycling processing operations review with options to consider for program enhancement; undertaken by CIF at the request of the Municipality.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Program and Facilities Evaluation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
Recycling Program Evaluation
CIF is managing a project to review the current blue box program and recommend possible options for program enhancement. The CIF is undertaking the project at the request of the Township.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box Recycling Program Best Practices Assessment Appendices |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
Recycling Program Evaluation
CIF is managing a project to review the current blue box program and recommend possible options for program enhancement. The CIF is undertaking the project at the request of the Municipality.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box Recycling Program Best Practices Assessment Appendices |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
Recycling Program Evaluation
CIF is managing a project to review the current blue box program and recommend possible options for program enhancement. The CIF is undertaking the project at the request of the Municipality.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box Recycling Program Best Practices Assessment |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
Recycling Program Evaluation
CIF is managing a project to review the current blue box program and recommend possible options for program enhancement. The CIF is undertaking the project at the request of the Municipality.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Program and Facilities Evaluation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
Recycling Services Cooperative RFP Development
Support for the development of a co-operative RFP for recycling services for the municipalities within Lanark County: Mississippi Mills, Carleton Place, Perth, Drummond/North Elmsley Twp, Beckwith Twp, Montague Twp, Tay Valley Twp, and Lanark Highlands Twp.
| Documents | Final Report: Lanark County Municipal Waste Group |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | Regional Cooperation | |
February 13, 2013
Recycling Services RFP Development Support
Support for the development of an RFP for recycling services.
| Documents | RFP: Waste Collection Services RFP: Blue Box Recyclable Materials Processing and Marketing Services |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | |
June 24, 2014
Recycling Services RFP Development Support
Support for the development of an RFP for recycling services.
| Documents | Request for Proposal: Waste and Recyclables Collection |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | |
January 18, 2012
Recycling Services RFP Development Support
Support for the development of an RFP for recycling services.
| Documents | Tender: Waste Management Collection Services |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Procurement | |
January 31, 2012
Recycling Strategy Development
Development of a Recycling Plan for the Town of Plympton-Wyoming.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Town of Plympton-Wyoming |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
Recycling Transfer Facility
Phase 1 study of options to develop BB transfer facility. Review of existing operations to develop recommendations to increase new transfer station effectiveness. Examined three options – Transtor system, compaction trailer, current system optimization.
| Documents | Final Report: Improvements to the Town's Recyclable Material Transfer Station |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
January 1, 2011
Recycling Transfer Station
Construct transfer station for BB material as result of recommendations in CIF #129.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Transfer Station |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #129 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
July 12, 2012
Recycling Workshops for Superintendents & Property Managers
This project will support municipal development of workshops for multi-residential building staff & management in two areas: 1. Train-the-trainer workshop for municipal staff (CIF will run two workshops) and 2. Funding for municipalities to implement workshops.
| Documents | Toronto Final Report (434.2): Superintendent and Property Management Workshop Niagara Final Report (434.3): Multi-Residential Superintendent & Manager Workshop |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | |
December 16, 2015
Red Lake Loading Ramp, Recycling Containment Wall
Red Lake proposed to build a loading ramp and make modifications to their recycling shed to facilitate loading of their newly acquired compaction trailer for shipping materials to Winnipeg.
| Documents | Final Report: Implementation of Municipally Hauled Recyclables to Winnipeg, Manitoba at Balmertown Waste Disposal Site |
| Blog Post | April 12, 2016: Red Lake’s Recycling Transport Upgrades |
| Related Projects | Project #453 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
March 21, 2016
Regionalized MRF Options & Cost Analysis
Development of MRF options & related costs analysis to determine the implications for the City of Hamilton stemming from the 2012 MIPC Study recommendations. The primary focus of the analysis will be to determine the number of tonnes that can realistically be secured and MRF design options. Municipalities directly linked to Hamilton in the 2012 MIPC Study recommendations will be engaged and MRF options (retro-fitting existing facility, building new, etc.)
| Documents | Final Report: Regionalized MRF Options & Cost Analysis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #816.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | |
March 5, 2018
Registering as an Alternative Collection System Form
Prior to their Transition Date, there was possibility of an opportunity for a Municipality to rely on their WDTA Blue Box Program, as an Alternative Collection System (ACS) to meet their Producer obligations under the Regulation. CIF developed a form and guidance to assist Municipalities in applying for this option.
For questions on this topic contact registry@rpra.ca.
| Documents | |
| Bulletins | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Producer Obligations | Transition | |
June 16, 2023
Relaunch Blue Boxes
Harmonization of regional program. Relaunch program with a one time distribution of 60,000 large capacity boxes to residents.
| Documents | Final Report: Relaunch of Blue Box Program |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #937 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | Communication/Education | |
October 1, 2018
Renfrew County MRF Plan
Prepared business plan to consider purchase of Bauman MRF in Renfrew County.
| Documents | Final Report: Business Plan for Purchasing the Renfrew County Recycle Centre (RCRC) |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Post-Collection | Procurement | |
January 1, 2010
REOI Submission Review
In 2011, the CIF hired Earth’s Edge (now Redi Recycling) to review an REOI submission from the Township of Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan (BLR or Township). The work included reviewing the application with BLR, performing a site visit, completing CIF documentation and recommending next steps for the REOI request by BLR.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Project Support | |
July 5, 2011
Report Template for Small Capital Projects
A number of smaller municipalities have requested guidance in the completion of the required final report for their CIF projects. Trow Associates was contracted to develop and test a sample report applicable to small capital projects.
| Documents | Template: CIF Short Form Report Template Template: CIF Final Report Template |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | |
October 3, 2014
Residential Audit Sample Optimization Toolkit
Development of a toolkit to assist in determining optimal waste composition study sample sizes and stratification amongst socio-demographic and program factors.
| Documents | Final Report: Residential Audit Sample Optimization Toolkit |
| Blog Post | June 25, 2020: Understanding the Complexities of Waste Audits |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
October 26, 2020
Residential Unit Count Study
This study will provide the City with accurate counts for Residential and ICI units using the curbside program. This will provide more accurate data for the RPRA Datacall and help the City fully understand residential costs which will assist in the transition to IPR.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | October 24, 2019: Unit Count Studies for Program and Transitional Planning: A Review of Two Methods |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | |
December 12, 2019
Review of Applicant Issues: Municipal RFP/Template
This project will provide insight as to how municipal RFPs for collection and processing might be improved from the perspective of bidders. The summary report will include discussion of issues/problematic clauses with alternatives to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the procurement process which may have applicable learnings to other municipalities in the province.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Procurement | |
February 16, 2018
RF Business Valuation & Strategic Option Evaluation
The development of a business valuation guide and a business case analysis would be advantageous to municipalities considering questions about future value of assets. Business case financial tools and/or asset valuation methodologies developed for generic use will have significant value for municipalities needing to answer questions about retention or sale of program assets.
| Documents | Synopsis Full Producer Responsibility Decision-Making Matrix |
| Blog Post | February 8, 2018: Niagara Prepares for the New World July 20, 2018: Decision-Making Guide: How to Prepare for Transition |
| Related Projects | Project #1050 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Valuation | |
November 8, 2018
RFP and Contract Support
This project involved providing municipalities with support to develop RFPs and contracts with the potential for transition to IPR in mind and assisting those dealing with contract management issues resulting from current market conditions.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Procurement | |
January 13, 2019
RFP Development - Blue Box Recyclable Materials Processing
CIF supported the development of an RFP for the County of Dufferin’s Waste Collection & Processing Services
| Documents | Blue Box Recyclable Materials Processing |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #700 Project #701 Project #702 Project #704 Project #705 Project #706 Project #708 Project #709 Project #710 Project #712 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Procurement | |
March 17, 2013
RFP Development - Operate and Maintain MRF
CIF supported the Regional Municipality of Durham in developing an RFP to operate and maintain the materials recovery facility.
| Documents | To Operate and Maintain the Region's Material Recovery Facility |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #700 Project #702 Project #703 Project #704 Project #705 Project #706 Project #708 Project #709 Project #710 Project #712 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Procurement | |
February 14, 2013
RFP Development - Recyclable Material Collection, Processing and Marketing Services
CIF supported the Townships of Beckwith, Montague and Drummond North Elmsley, and the Towns of Mississippi Mills and Carleton Place in the development of an RFP for recyclable material collection, processing and marketing services.
| Documents | Recyclable Material Collection, Processing and Marketing Services |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #700 Project #701 Project #702 Project #703 Project #704 Project #705 Project #706 Project #708 Project #710 Project #712 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Procurement | |
December 13, 2012
RFP Development - Refuse and Recycling Collection
CIF supported the Municipality of Chatham Kent in the development of an RFP for refuse and recycling collection.
| Documents | Refuse & Recycling Collection |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #700 Project #701 Project #702 Project #703 Project #704 Project #705 Project #706 Project #709 Project #710 Project #712 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Procurement | |
September 23, 2014
RFP Development - Supply of Curbside Recycling Collection Services
CIF supported the City of Kingston in the development of an RFP for the supply of curbside recycling collection services.
| Documents | Supply of Curbside Recycling Collection Services |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #700 Project #701 Project #702 Project #703 Project #704 Project #705 Project #706 Project #708 Project #709 Project #710 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Procurement | |
November 20, 2012
RFP Development - Supply of Curbside Recycling Collection Services
CIF supported the Township of Loyalist in the development of an RFP for the supply of curbside recycling collection services.
| Documents | Supply of Curbside Recycling Collection Services |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #700 Project #701 Project #702 Project #703 Project #704 Project #705 Project #706 Project #708 Project #709 Project #712 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Procurement | |
October 13, 2015
RFP Support – City of Peterborough
A project to assist the City and County of Peterborough with joint RFP development and current contract assistance.
| Documents | Final Report: RFP Development Draft RFP: Collection and Transportation of Recyclable Material |
| Blog Post | April 18, 2016: Success in Establishing New Contracts in a Time of Change |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | MRF | Procurement | |
February 3, 2016
RFP Support and P&E Campaign
Assist with drafting/issue of new joint recycling collection/processing RFP/Tender.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Municipality Recycling RFP/Tender and Promotion & Education Material Project |
| Blog Post | February 15, 2109: A Multi-Municipal Initiative: RFP and P&E Development |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Communication/Education | Procurement | Regional Cooperation | |
February 7, 2019
RFP Template Review & Effectiveness Study of Public Information Tools
Quinte Waste Solutions proposes to conduct an evaluation of their recently completed RFP process developed on the basis of CIF templates and an internal QWS RFP template developed by the same author as the CIF template. QWS received three satisfactory responses to the RFP and, during the process, issued eight addenda to address concerns not covered in the templates.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Procurement | |
July 16, 2015
RFQ Development
Development for an RFQ for energy management consultants.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | MRF | Project Support | |
January 1, 2010
Roll-off Bins for Glass Collection
Assist with the purchase of bins to be used to collect glass at the public recycling depots.
| Documents | Final Report: Glass Bin Funding |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
September 16, 2011
Route Optimization Software
The purpose of this project was to ascertain the current state of development of route optimization software and to determine whether there was one or more inexpensive software systems which interested municipalities could use to review their current collection routing for opportunities to improve efficiencies. Stantec Ltd. was contracted to complete the first two phases of the project. The first phase included conducting a scan of route optimization software providers to identify those providing simple, inexpensive routing systems. The second phase included contacting the identified vendors and their customers to determine the capabilities and efficacy of the available systems. CIF staff are working to determine if there is sufficient interest amongst municipalities to warrant further work in the subject area.
| Documents | Final Report Part 1: Route Optimization Software Review Final Report Part 2: Route Optimization Software |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Collection | Innovation | |
January 13, 2010
RPRA - Waste Composition Studies – Year 2
Waste composition studies required to fulfill year two of the RPRA (formally WDO) Terms of Reference. Funding partners are Stewardship Ontario and the CIF.
| Documents | Summary Report: CIF/SO Terms of Reference Year 2 4-Season Residential Waste Composition Study Results |
| Blog Post | November 9, 2018: Waste Composition Study Results Available Now: Essential Reading for Blue Box Program Staff |
| Related Projects | Project #1002 (Year 1) Project #1005 (Year 2) Project #1014 (Year 3) Project #1045 (Year 4) Project #1081 (Year 5) Project #1105 (Year 6) Project #1138 (Year 7) |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
October 9, 2018
RPRA - Waste Composition Studies – Year 3
Waste composition studies required to fulfill year three of the RPRA (formally WDO) Terms of Reference. Funding partners are Stewardship Ontario and the CIF.
| Documents | Results Summary Report: CIF/SO Terms of Reference Year 3 Residential Waste Composition Study |
| Blog Post | March 5, 2020: Third year of waste composition studies gives valuable insights |
| Related Projects | Project #1002 (Year 1) Project #1005 (Year 2) Project #1014 (Year 3) Project #1045 (Year 4) Project #1081 (Year 5) Project #1105 (Year 6) Project #1138 (Year 7) |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
October 29, 2020
RPRA - Waste Composition Studies – Year 4
Waste composition studies for year four of the RPRA (formally WDO) Terms of Reference. Funding partners are Stewardship Ontario and the CIF.
| Documents | Year 4: 4-Season Residential Waste Composition Study Results (2019/20) |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #1002 (Year 1) Project #1005 (Year 2) Project #1014 (Year 3) Project #1045 (Year 4) Project #1081 (Year 5) Project #1105 (Year 6) Project #1138 (Year 7) |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
September 30, 2021
RPRA - Waste Composition Studies – Year 5
Waste composition studies for year five of the RPRA (formally WDO) Terms of Reference. Funding partners are Stewardship Ontario and the CIF.
| Documents | Year 5: 4-Season Residential Waste Composition Study Results (2019/20) |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #1002 (Year 1) Project #1005 (Year 2) Project #1014 (Year 3) Project #1045 (Year 4) Project #1081 (Year 5) Project #1105 (Year 6) Project #1138 (Year 7) |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
July 18, 2022
RPRA - Waste Composition Studies – Year 6
Waste composition studies for year six of the RPRA (formally WDO) Terms of Reference. Funding partners are Stewardship Ontario and the CIF.
| Documents | Study |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #1002 (Year 1) Project #1005 (Year 2) Project #1014 (Year 3) Project #1045 (Year 4) Project #1081 (Year 5) Project #1105 (Year 6) Project #1138 (Year 7) |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
April 27, 2023
RPRA - Waste Composition Studies – Year 7
Waste composition studies for year seven of the RPRA (formally WDO) Terms of Reference. Funding partners are Stewardship Ontario and the CIF.
| Documents | Study |
| Bulletins | |
| Related Projects | Project #1002 (Year 1) Project #1005 (Year 2) Project #1014 (Year 3) Project #1045 (Year 4) Project #1081 (Year 5) Project #1105 (Year 6) Project #1138 (Year 7) |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
April 9, 2024
Sale of Community Owned Containers Guide
Since the Blue Box Program’s inception, communities have invested in collection containers to deliver residential blue box collection services across Ontario. Some private waste management companies that are service providers for Circular Materials (CM) are approaching communities to negotiate the purchase of collection containers, including curbside blue boxes and carts, as well as roll-off and front-end loading (FEL) bins used at multi-residential buildings and depot collection sites.
Communities were seeking guidance on:
- A general approach to collection container inventory and condition assessments as well as asset valuation (considering asset amortization schedules and residual values).
- A set of best practices for negotiating with the CM service providers regarding the sale of all or some of the community-owned containers.
- An examination of alternative options (i.e., repurpose, lease, sale through auction or recycle) if an agreement on the sale of containers cannot be reached with the CM service provider
In response, CIF developed a guidance document in coordination with a working group consisting of interested municipal staff. The guidance document also contains case studies of communities who have gone through a process of selling their blue box program containers.
| Documents | Sale of Community Owned Containers Guide |
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| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Collection Containers | Transition | |
May 3, 2024
Sault Ste. Marie Curbside Cart Contamination Analysis
An analysis of cross contamination and residual levels in Sault Ste. Marie’s split cart program.
| Documents | Final Report: Sault Ste. Marie Single Family Residential Curbside Audit & Inbound Recycling Audit |
| Blog Post | August 2, 2018: Sault Ste. Marie and GFL Celebrate 5 Successful Years with Split-Body Cart Recycling |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | Contamination | |
May 30, 2018
Sawtooth Bin Wall
Construction of sawtooth wall to facilitate roll-off bins for recyclables at transfer station.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Site Recycling Sawtooth System |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
January 27, 2011
School Recycling Program
This project involves implementation of a school recycling program in cooperation with the County’s local school boards. The new program will be consistent with the County’s blue box program and will promote the correct way to recycle within the County. The new program is expected to divert approximately 500 tonnes/yr of recyclables and reduce curbside contamination. Approximately $85,000 in funding, representing 43% of the eligible costs was provided by the CIF.
| Documents | Final Report: Learning and Living Green |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | |
May 25, 2012
Scope Development for a Provincial School Blue Box Curriculum
Development of a scope of work in anticipation of the release of an RFP to develop a standardized blue box oriented curriculum for the provincial education system.
| Documents | RFP: School Curriculum for Municipal Blue Box Education Program |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | |
July 12, 2012
SDG Regional Waste/Recycling Management Strategy
The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SDG) is requesting CIF funding to complete a regional waste management planning strategy. The strategy is intended to aid SDG in identifying their future waste management needs and prepare them for transition of their Blue Box programs. The CIF will contribute approximately $25,000 or 13% of projected project costs to this work as a template for other smaller municipalities.
| Documents | Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
April 21, 2023
Seguin Compacting Bin Automation and Energy Saving
The operation of compaction systems at remote sites is challenging because of the need to manually cycle the units. Sequin Township proposes to test a new means of automating these systems and insulating the hydraulic system to reduce winter heating costs. The proposed retrofits will cost $16,000 with CIF contributing up to 41% subject to proof of concept. These retrofits are expected to have a payback of 2 years and the information will benefit the dozens of compactor systems in operation across Ontario.
| Documents | Final Report: Compacting Bin Automation and Energy Savings |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
December 14, 2016
Shared Services Initiative
CIF Project #802.4 explored the viability and potential benefits of forming a regionalization project in the Renfrew area. The project resulted in an agreement amongst six local municipalities to begin development of coordinated efforts including development of several cost savings initiatives. CIF #843 represents the implementation and cost savings quantification phase of this multi-year project. The CIF will contribute up to 45% of project costs which represents an investment of under $23,000.
| Documents | Final Report: Shared Services Centre of Excellence Initiative |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project 802.4 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
August 30, 2017
Signage Upgrade for Public Space Recycling
CIF supported the City of Stratford with P&E in public space downtown areas to reduce contamination, educate residents on the accepted materials and make the bins recognizable as recycling.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space - Downtown Depot Signage |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #667.12 |
| Categories | Communication/Education | Public Spaces | Signage | |
October 27, 2014
Single Family Waste Audits – City of Toronto
The audit will indicate the current SF diversion and participation rates. Results will be compared to previous data. In addition to measuring performance, the data will help plan effective SF programs and communications.
| Documents | Final Report: Single Family Curbside Waste and Participation Audit |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
June 2, 2017
Single Stream Conversion, P&E Support Campaign
Oxford County multi-media P&E campaign to support the transition to single stream, expanded list of targeted materials and increased collection frequency starting in September 2015. A significant focus of the campaign will be residue management, which is critical to the successful introduction of a single stream program.
| Documents | Final Report: Oxford County Single Stream Conversion, P&E Support Campaign |
| Blog Post | April 7, 2017: Critical Path Tracking Adds Value to Oxford County’s Program Relaunch |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | |
March 16, 2017
Single Stream MRF Efficiency Audit & Equipment Maintenance Audit
MRF performance audit to determine the processing efficiency. Data collected will be used to identify opportunities to improve material flow and reduce material cross contamination leading to increased capture and revenue. The audit will serve as a diagnostic assessment providing staff with a full list of issues and concerns that can be prioritized according to their ability to provide a return on investment for spending to correct inefficiencies. Equipment Maintenance Audit will cross-reference operational performance with maintenance records to verify upkeep, repair and will identify any replacement efforts needed.
| Documents | Final Report: Material Recovery Facility Efficiency Assessment and Improvement Recommendations |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | MRF | |
October 1, 2018
Sioux Narrows Solar Compactors
Installation of co-mingled solar compactors at Sioux Narrows two depots. The installation is expected to cost approx. $167,000 and will receive 43% funding from CIF with a payback of under 6 years.
| Documents | Final Report: Sioux Narrows Compaction Bins |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
January 12, 2017
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Addington Highlands
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 29, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Admaston/Bromley
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Blue Box Communication Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
December 17, 2014
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Alfred & Plantagenet
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
November 8, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Bancroft
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
August 8, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Brudenell, Lyndoch & Raglan
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
October 1, 2014
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Casselman
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 26, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Central Frontenac
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 28, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Chippewas of Georgina Island
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | First Nations Communities | |
March 6, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Cochrane
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Promotion and Education Plan - Summary Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
August 29, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Drummond-North Elmsley
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 18, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Dufferin
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Communication Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
April 1, 2014
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Elizabethtown-Kitley
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Blue Box Distribution and Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
September 26, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Emo
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
September 18, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Fort Frances
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 22, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Frontenac Islands
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
September 16, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Grey Highlands
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box P&E Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
January 18, 2012
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Hawkesbury
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Blue Box P&E Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
January 18, 2012
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Head, Clara and Maria
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Promotion & Education Plan for Blue Box Program |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
January 20, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Horton
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 10, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Kenora
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Waste Management Promotion and Education Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
December 1, 2011
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs. Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards implemented a communication plan to increase depot recycling, including new signage to help residents know where/what is recyclable. The signs indicate sorting requirements with images and text based support. Blue Box diversion rate increased from 22% to 28%.
| Documents | Report: Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards Communications Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | Depots | Operations | Planning | |
June 23, 2014
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Killarney
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 26, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Kirkland Lake
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 26, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Loyalist
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 21, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - McMurrich/Monteith
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
September 9, 2014
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - McNab/Braeside
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs. McNab/Braeside installed new signage at the recycling depot with goal of reducing contamination and increasing diversion. New signs reduced contamination fines and lowered staff time spent sorting recyclables.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | Depots | Signage | |
August 26, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Mississippi Mills
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 10, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Mono
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
November 24, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Nipissing First Nation
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | First Nations Communities | |
October 16, 2016
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - North Dundas
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 28, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - North Frontenac
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs. North Frontenac's goal was to increase tonnage and reduce contamination of recyclables, standardize the program and increase participation by seasonal population and tourists. P&E targeted cottagers and campers using billboards and laminated posters and provided brochures at the depot. Bags of recyclables increased 6%.
| Documents | Final Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | Depots | Signage | |
July 21, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - North Glengarry
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 8, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - North Stormont
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Final Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 18, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Oneida Nation of the Thames
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | First Nations Communities | |
July 10, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
April 19, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Perth
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Waste Management Promotion and Education Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
December 1, 2011
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Rideau Lakes
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
September 9, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Russell
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program Promotion and Education Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
October 1, 2014
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Sables-Spanish Rivers
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 27, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Sault North
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Project Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 10, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - South Stormont
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs
| Documents | Report: Large Curbside Containers and Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
October 13, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Stone Mills
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
June 29, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Stratford
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program Promotion and Education Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
July 31, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Strong
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: 2011 Recycling Promoter |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
March 15, 2012
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Tudor & Cashel
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Small Program P&E Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
May 22, 2013
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - West Nipissing
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs. West Nippissing used fliers and new signage to reduce contamination and increase participation rates. Participation increased from 50% to 62% and tonnage increased 10%.
| Documents | Final Report: Small Program P&E Plan Implementation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | Depots | Signage | |
July 8, 2015
Small Community Promotion & Education Plan - Wollaston
CIF assisted smaller municipalities with promotion and education to promote recycling programs.
| Documents | Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Communication/Education | |
December 10, 2012
Small Municipal Depot Guidebook
This guidebook is designed to assist small municipalities with practical information, checklists, costing analysis spreadsheets and other information intended to identify common depot configurations, issues and better practice solutions. The guidebook and much more help with depots can be found in the Blue Box Resource Depot archive.
| Documents | Small Municipal Depot Guidebook and Depot Costing Model |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Depots | |
December 2, 2017
Small Program P&E Plan
Development of a P&E plan template for small program usage as well as the development of communication material templates.
| Documents | Promotion and Education |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #719 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Communication/Education | |
October 5, 2012
Solar Compactor Retrofit
This project is a small retrofit to one of the solar compaction systems at the Township of Whitestone’s busiest depots to address wintertime battery draw down issues. If successful, it will reduce generator operating costs and provide information of value to similar systems across Ontario. The cost of the project will be approximately $10,000 and is expected to have a payback of approximately 5 years. The CIF will contribute up to half the costs in light of the potential province wide benefits.
| Documents | Final Report: Auld Road Transfer Site Solar Compactor Retrofit |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
October 11, 2018
Solid Waste Master Plan
This project proposes to provide the City of Ottawa with a Solid Waste Master Plan that will guide their management of municipal solid waste over the next 30 years. The Plan will consider their role as the Blue Box Program transitions to IPR.
| Documents | Report |
| Blog Post | April 8, 2021: Public Engagement: Going online only |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 24, 2024
Southwestern Ontario Regional MRF
City of London is requesting capital funding for $15 million 75,000 tpy two-stream regional MRF. Preliminary estimates suggest that a regional facility will save $10 to 15 per tonne ($0.75 to $1.1 million per year) in net system costs. Potential partners include Oxford County, Norfolk County, Brant County, Wellington County, City of Brantford, City of Stratford, City of Sarnia and some individual municipalities from Middlesex County, Elgin County and Lambton Counties. Preliminary discussions are underway with these municipalities.
| Documents | Final Report: Manning Drive Regional Material Recovery Facility |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #175 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Regional Cooperation | |
January 20, 2013
Stakeholder Review
A stakeholder review was undertaken to determine their needs for future CIF projects and direction as part of developing the 2010 work plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Stakeholder Interview Project |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Project Support | |
June 30, 2009
Stationary Box Recycling Collection
The implementation of a signal indicator system for collection in stationary curbside holding boxes to increase efficiencies. The boxes protect materials set out for collection but require the driver to stop and check. By implementing an indicator system for the boxes, the driver will not have to stop and check each box thereby increasing efficiencies.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Collection Box Indicator Pilot Project |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | |
August 15, 2012
Stranded Asset Analysis
On August 14, 2017 the Minister of Environment & Climate Change sent a letter to Stewardship Ontario (SO) and the Resource Productivity Authority requesting they formally initiate a consultation and bring forth a proposal on amending the Blue Box Program Plan (BBPP). The letter required, among other things, that the plan avoid creating stranded assets to the extent possible in a collaborative manner. CIF was requested by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario to examine the magnitude of the municipal infrastructure and potential implications of declaring it redundant or stranded.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Transition | |
April 25, 2018
Stratford RFP Development: Technical Support for Transition to Full EPR
The City of Stratford will be releasing a Request for Proposals in the summer of 2018 for comprehensive recycling services (collection and processing of recyclables). This project seeks to include clauses and procedures that will guide the purchasing process and eventual contractual agreement under transition to full producer responsibility of the Blue Box program.
| Documents | Collection Services Tender Blue Box Processing RFP |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Procurement | Transition | |
October 29, 2019
Study of the Optimization of the Blue Box Material Processing System in Ontario
StewardEdge Inc. was retained to undertake a study to determine an optimized transfer and MRF infrastructure for Ontario.
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| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
October 30, 2012
Sudbury Area First Nation Recycling Program Implementation Evaluation
A co-operative planning effort for First Nations Communities (15+) in the Sudbury Region to develop and implement recycling programs in the communities without current programs and meet best practice in the communities that have a recycling program.
| Documents | Final Report: Sudbury Area First Nation Recycling Program Implementation Evaluation |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | First Nations Communities | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
May 21, 2013
Summary of Canadian EPR Programs
EPR programs under development and currently in effect across Ontario were summarized to facilitate discussion of possible better practices.
| Documents | Final Report: EPR Programs in Canada |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Planning | Project Support | Transition | |
October 29, 2014
Survey of Municipal Position on Glass Market 2014
The glass market in Ontario remains problematic because of the limited market options and quality of mixed broken glass produced primarily by large single stream programs. The CIF was approached in late 2013 to consider investing in improvement of existing local markets. This survey was commissioned to solicit feedback from municipalities to determine if such an investment by the CIF was warranted and supported by municipalities. The cost was approximately $2500.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | End Markets | Post-Collection | |
March 31, 2014
System Optimization Analysis
In preparing for the impact of the Waste Free Ontario Act, the County of Frontenac wishes to develop opportunities to work with its municipalities to explore a regional approach to waste diversion.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Management Review |
| Blog Post | June 21, 2019: Four Townships and a County: A Waste Management Review |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Regional Cooperation | |
September 7, 2019
System Optimization Strategy Work Plan
In December of 2012 the WDO board passed a series of resolutions, several of which affected the CIF, including direction that “MIPC develop a proposal on how to implement the efficiency improvements over the next five years as identified by the MIPC Optimization Study and to submit their plans to WDO no later than June 1, 2013”. In February of 2013, CIF Committee directed staff to prepare a plan at WDO’s request. RRS was selected to develop this plan at a cost of up to $22,000.
The report was completed and approved by MIPC in June 2013.
| Documents | Final Report: Blue Box Infrastructure Optimization Strategy and Implementation Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
June 19, 2013
The Big Blue: Increase Container Capacity and Control Litter
The purchase and distribution of large size (32 gallon) bins for recycling collection. Support for the purchase and distribution of 1000 large bins for the single stream recycling materials. Bins will be sold to residents at City cost.
| Documents | Final Report: The Big Blue: Increasing container capacity and controlling litter |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Collection Containers | |
March 15, 2013
Thermoset PET
Work with NAPCOR and Stewardship Ontario to evaluate processing alternatives for Thermoset PET.
| Documents | Final Report: NAPCOR PET Thermoformed Packaging Recycling Initiative |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #175 |
| Categories | End Markets | Innovation | Post-Collection | |
November 22, 2012
Toronto Auto Cart Collection Expansion
The City of Toronto received $1,418,000 representing 50% of their funding request to the CIF to expand their automated cart collection system in the city including the purchase of three combined natural gas vehicles. The vehicles will allow the City to test the potential to convert their fleet to biogas derived from their landfill and green bin operations. Savings of almost $900,000 per year are expected through the conversion of these 46 vehicles to automated collection trucks. The total project costs are approximately $11,700,000 and will divert an additional3,000 tonnes of blue box material annually.
| Documents | Final Report: Efficiency of Automated Collection and Performance of Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #548.7 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Collection Containers | |
August 28, 2014
Toronto Multi-Residential Bin Investigations: Rejection at Source
A study designed to quantify the extent to which tagging and leaving behind contaminated FEL Bins at Multi-Residential buildings minimizes residue rates and lowers blue box costs. A cost benefit analysis will be completed. If the approach proves to be a practice that helps to minimize contamination, a better practice guide will be developed.
| Documents | Final Report: Multi-Residential Front-End Loading Bin Contamination Abatement Project |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contamination | Multi-Residential | |
November 12, 2019
Toronto Public Space Recycling
City of Toronto waste management staff have assumed responsibility of waste management services throughout the City and are implementing automated cart collection of waste and recyclables to improve collection efficiencies. They are also trialing new container designs in an effort to reduce contamination. The total cost of the project is estimated to be over $212,000 and CIF will be committing up to $95,000 or 45% of project costs.
Phase 1 – Replace mesh recycling containers with 360L carts and switch to semi-automated collection vehicles and Phase 2 – Improve education and awareness program with more signs. Type of sign did not seem to significantly influence waste diversion behaviour. Audit results showed that carts achieved increase in diversion rates increased from 14% in 2008 to 22% in 2013 and contamination decreased from 41% to 34%. Recycling carts achieved 68% capture rate in 2013. Costs to install semi auto lifters provided.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling Project Assessment |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #548.11 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
July 2, 2014
Toronto Public Space Recycling, Phase 2
This project represents the second phase of the City’s efforts to convert their parks to autcart collection and includes innovative features such as domed lids with openings in the side of the lid to reduce rain and snow collection while keeping the cart lid locked down. The total project is over $765,000 with a projected payback of approximately one year and Cif is contributing almost $391,000 to assist with, amongst other things, monitoring and measuring obligations.
| Documents | Final Report: Public Space Recycling Project Assessment |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Public Spaces | |
July 2, 2014
Toronto Single Family Blue Box Curbside Investigation: Contamination Abatement
A study designed to quantify the extent to which tagging and leaving behind contaminated carts minimizes residue rates and lowers blue box costs. A cost benefit analysis will be completed. If the approach proves to be a practice that helps to minimize contamination, a better practice guide will be developed.
| Documents | Final Report: Curbside Recycling Contamination Bin Inspections |
| Blog Post | September 1, 2017: Reducing Costs by Integrating Residents into Your Blue Box Service Delivery Model |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contamination | |
October 16, 2019
Tower Renewal – Maximizing Residential Waste Diversion, Part A
Toronto’s Tower Renewal is a pilot project to rejuvenate 11 large concrete-frame, high-rise residential towers with plans for energy & water conservation, waste reduction and community revitalization. The CIF project focused on increasing BB recycling; Part B would be to implement recommendations.
| Documents | Final Report: Maximizing Residential Waste Diversion in Connection with the Mayor's Tower Renewal Pilot Feasibility Study |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | Planning | |
January 1, 2011
Train the Trainer Workshop for Multi-Residential Stakeholders
This project will address the need to develop recycling training for Multi-res superintendents, property managers and building owners. Part 1) Development of a recyclers training workshop for MR stakeholders and, Part B) development & delivery of a train-the-trainer workshop to municipal staff.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Multi-Residential | Training | |
December 31, 2011
Transfer Facility Upgrades
Upgraded the loading ramp resulting in reduced loading times. Added new 8 yd3 recycling bins and directional signage. 42% reduction in labour requirements achieved and increase in diversion expected.
| Documents | Final Report: Fort Frances Transfer Station Upgrades |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
January 6, 2012
Transfer Facility Upgrades
This application involves the installation of a portable conveyor and overhead magnetic separator to allow Strong Township to separate their ferrous and aluminum streams and secure improved market pricing. The project also includes expansion of the current Coverall style building to aid traffic flow of residents and operations and supporting funding to improve signage and customer P&E. The CIF has provided $22,950 or 46% of the funds required to complete this project. A payback of six years is expected.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling Innovations: Transfer Station Upgrade |
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| Related Projects | Project #354 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | |
September 16, 2011
Transfer Station Activity Based Costing Analysis
A financial review and rate setting analysis relating to positioning Timmins as a regional hub for recyclable materials. This performance audit is designed to determine the useful life remaining in the system and current value.
| Documents | Final Report: Costing Analysis for Transfer Station Recycling Activities |
| Blog Post | September 9, 2016: Activity Based Costing Pays Off |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Valuation | |
October 2, 2018
Transfer Station Construction & Annual Operation Cost Analysis
Review and verification of construction and annual operating cost for the City of Cochrane’s transfer station which was built using reclaimed overseas shipping containers.
| Documents | Final Report: Cochrane Transfer Station Construction and Annual Operation Cost Analysis |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Depots | |
December 11, 2013
Transfer Station Scale Upgrades
The City is undertaking an upgrade to the scale system at its transfer facility to automate the collection of weigh scale data. The system will eliminate the need to manually record and input the weigh scale data from the recycling trucks.
| Documents | Final Report: Scale Automation |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
July 13, 2014
Transfer Station Transportation Logistics Analysis
This project involves modeling of standard hauling and transfer metrics to Brantford’s proposed transfer station application to determine what, if any, efficiencies can be gained over their current direct hauling option using various TS set ups. An upset limit of $1040 was established for this phase of the project.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | Planning | |
July 15, 2011
Transfer Station Upgrades
Upgrade the existing recycling drop-off area by increasing the size and layout to accommodate additional bins for recycling and making it more user friendly for residents.
| Documents | Final Report: Transfer Station Upgrades |
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| Related Projects | Project #522.2 Project #522.10 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
June 21, 2011
Transition Implementation Checklist
The transition of Ontario’s blue box program to a producer-responsibility model is now being implemented in communities across the province. While producers are preparing to assume responsibility of blue box programs, communities that have long provided recycling services to residents are having to consider the day-to-day implications of this transition on their existing operations.
The CIF developed a checklist that staff can use to identify who will be impacted, in what ways, and the policies, procedures or promotions that need to be developed to ensure a smooth transition. This checklist had five versions circulated throughout 2023 and 2024 through CIF Bulletins and the CIF Transition Portal. The final version can be found in the deliverables below.
| Documents | CIF Transition Checklist for Communities - Version 5 |
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November 14, 2024
Transition Report Samples, Templates, and Resources
Using examples from many communities, the CIF developed several templates for Council Reports to assist communities who were in the process of putting together their own Council reports.
With transition underway in 2024, five templates were developed: Introduction to Transition; Curbside Opt In; Depot Opt In; Opt Out; and Non-Eligible Sources. Within each template there are yellow highlighted areas for staff to enter information specific to your community. Please note that these Council report templates must be edited by community staff to capture local circumstances.
In addition to the report templates, CIF developed a one-page "Blue Box Transition to Producer Responsibility" infographic that can be modified and used in various P&E campaigns and/or as an attachment to a Council report, as well as a "Non-Eligible Source User Information" handout that can be given to depot users with non-eligible source material as surveys are being conducted to gather information to better support recommendations to Council . Staff can add their municipal logo, transition date and number of non-eligible sources in the prompt boxes.
Previously, as details about the transition of the blue box program were first being released, the CIF developed committee report samples to explain what was then known about the transition in 2017 and 2019.
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Transition Timelines and Decision Points
CIF created a "Blue Box Transition to Full Producer Responsibility Timelines and Decision Points" summary document. The document was used to ensure that municipalities were staying apprised of the key milestones and could be modified by municipal staff as transition timelines and decision points progress.
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| Categories | Transition | |
August 15, 2022
Transition Working Group – Change Management & Communications Subcommittee
In 2021 CIF, in partnership with M3RC, launched a Transition Working Group comprised of five subcommittees. Change Management and Communications makes up one of the five subcommittees. The Change Management and Communications subcommittee will focus on common approaches and tools to support administrators and other stakeholders on pre- and post-transition related issues. Deliverables will include collection & administration decision tree training, valuation tools guidance, and internal/external communication mechanisms to address change management.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #1152 Project #1153 Project #1154 Project #1155 Project #1156 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Transition | |
March 16, 2022
Transition Working Group – Contracts Subcommittee
In 2021 CIF, in partnership with M3RC, launched a Transition Working Group comprised of five subcommittees. Contracts makes up one of the five subcommittees. It will focus on collection service and other procurement through to contract development and management prior to transition and in advance of and including the 2023-25 transition period. Deliverables will include pre-transition training to address issues leading up to transition and a post-transition report.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #1153 Project #1154 Project #1155 Project #1156 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Transition | |
March 4, 2022
Transition Working Group – Data Reporting & Monitoring Subcommittee
In 2021 CIF, in partnership with M3RC, launched a Transition Working Group comprised of five subcommittees. Data Reporting and Monitoring makes up one of the five subcommittees. The Data Reporting and Monitoring subcommittee will focus on common approaches/tools to assist with data management (i.e., administrative and operational) focused on pre- and post-transition related issues. Deliverables will include data collection protocols and guidance related to transition and a KPI report for pre- and post-transition guidance.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #1152 Project #1153 Project #1154 Project #1156 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Transition | |
March 4, 2022
Transition Working Group – Fair Compensation Subcommittee
In 2021 CIF, in partnership with M3RC, launched a Transition Working Group comprised of five subcommittees. Fair Compensation makes up one of the five subcommittees. It will focus on pre- and post-transition related issues ensuring that Municipalities/First Nation groups have the tools to accurately assess collection scenarios and report to Council. Deliverables will include data analysis reports and fair compensation mechanisms.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Related Projects | Project #1152 Project #1153 Project #1155 Project #1156 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Transition | |
March 4, 2022
Transition Working Group – Post Collection Subcommittee
In 2021 CIF, in partnership with M3RC, launched a Transition Working Group comprised of five subcommittees. Post Collections makes up one of the five subcommittees. Post Collections subcommittee will focus on tools to support decisions related to post-collection activities at depots, MRFs and transfer stations focused on pre- and post-transition related issues. Deliverables will include decision tree and guidance, asset valuation tools, and procurement and negotiation guidance.
| Documents | Project Synopsis Deliverables: |
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| Related Projects | Project #1152 Project #1153 Project #1154 Project #1155 |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | Operations | Post-Collection | Transition | Transportation | Valuation | |
March 4, 2022
Transitional Contract Clause Development for aBBPP
Provision of assistance to M3RC (thru AMO) and other stakeholders in the development of transitional contract clauses for use in support of the proposed aBBPP.
| Documents | Synopsis |
| Blog Post | April 4, 2019: Contract Clauses to Prepare Municipalities for Transition |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Contracts | Procurement | |
March 14, 2021
Transportation Logistics Analysis of Eastern Ontario
This project involves modeling of optimized roll off vs. overhead compactor collection of rural depots in Eastern Ontario as a surrogate wasteshed to establish a best practice which might be applied to sites managing under 100 tonnes/yr across the province.
| Documents | Synopsis |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
July 2, 2014
Two-Stream Harmonization
The Township of Southwold has partnered with the London area MRF for processing and marketing of Blue Box materials collected from residents. In supporting optimization initiatives in alignment with the MIPC Study, this project provides funding for the purchase of a second blue box for residents to meet the requirements of the City’s two-stream MRF.
| Documents | Final Report: Township of Southwold Two-Stream Harmonization |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Collection Containers | Single/Dual Stream | |
October 9, 2018
Use of Compactors for Managing Municipal Waste Guide
The CIF has funded a large number of compactor systems across Ontario to optimize the shipment of recyclables. The purpose of this guide is to summarize the learnings of project partners so that municipalities considering the installation of compaction systems can benefit from past projects. The cost of the guide is expected to be under $20k.
| Documents | Final Report: Depot Compactor Guide |
| Blog Post | October 28, 2016: New Depot Compactor Guide Now Available |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Compactors | Depots | |
November 11, 2016
Vaughan – Collection RFP Planning: Cost Allocation Modeling & Determining the Financial Implications of Expanded Multi-Residential Service
Preparation for the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for collection services for the City of Vaughan including: the development of a Multi-Residential (MRes) collection service policy best practice; refinement of CIF’s existing MRes database resource; third party review of change of law and, or EPR-specific terms, as well as other established RFP best practices recommended by CIF; and finally vetting of a newly developed CIF Activity Based Costing (ABC) Tool for collection services.
| Documents | Final Report: City of Vaughan - Collection RFP Planning Model: Curbside Collection Cost Model Workshop presentation and handouts |
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| Categories | Models | Transition | |
February 15, 2018
Waste Analysis Management Tool (WAMT)
Waste studies undertaken by CIF and many municipalities over the years had produced hundreds of waste composition data sets, which were most often utilized and archived independently for each individual project. The purpose of this project was to develop a tool for aggregating, managing, tracking and analyzing these types of datasets. This tool would provide municipalities the ability to manage their own data, as well as compare to others.
With the closure of the CIF, this tool ceased to be available on December 31, 2024.
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| Blog Post | Waste Analysis Management Tool (WAMT) streamlines analysis of audit data CIF’s Waste Analysis Management Tool (WAMT) Closes December 31, 2024 |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Composition Studies | Models | |
October 7, 2021
Waste Audit – City of Barrie
Phasing in Every Other Week (EOW) garbage collection is expected to reduce garbage generated and increase blue box recycling. This baseline 100 HH two season audit will gather data against which the EOW collection can be measured.
| Documents | Final Report: Two-Season Waste Composition Studies |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
July 13, 2018
Waste Audit – County of Simcoe
Simcoe County is conducting a round of four-season residential curbside waste audits. The audit will provide baseline data and results will be included in future planning for blue box program expansion/improvements as well as targeted P&E campaigns.
| Documents | Final Report: 2015 County of Simcoe 4-Season Waste Composition Studies |
| Blog Post | |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
July 1, 2016
Waste Audit – Halton Region
To measure the effectiveness of three initiatives in Halton’s 2012-2016 Solid Waste Management Strategy and their impact on the capture of Blue Box materials in both single family and multi-family residential households.
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
January 12, 2015
Waste Audit – Niagara Region
A four season waste composition audit to monitor effectiveness of waste management programs.
| Documents | Final Report: 2015/16 Seasonal Low-Density Residential Dwelling Curbside Waste Composition Study |
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| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
January 24, 2017
Waste Audits – Sample Size and Statistical Validity
With transition fast approaching, the need to analyze and monitor the blue box programs performance is evident. The CIF is looking at the current blue box recovery rate calculation to determine the best course of action to track/measure performance throughout transition. Current audit methodology will be assessed and potentially modified to meet the needs of municipalities and First Nations communities.
| Documents | Presentation Slides - Data Monitoring & Reporting Meeting - June 21, 2022 Presentation Slides - Contracts & Fair Compensation Meeting - January 19, 2023 |
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| Categories | Best Practices | Composition Studies | Contamination | Transition | |
February 6, 2023
Waste Disposal Site Signage
The production and installation of new and enhanced signage for the blue box recycling collection depot are at the landfill site as per best practice.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Disposal Site Signage |
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| Categories | Communication/Education | |
January 9, 2012
Waste Management Plan, Timmins
Develop waste management plan to increase waste diversion and initiate long term waste management plan.
| Documents | Final Report: City of Timmins Recycling Transfer Facility Evaluation & System Review Supplemental Report: City of Timmins Recycling Transfer Facility Evaluation and Recycling System Review - Supplemental Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #162 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
April 30, 2009
Waste Recycling Plan - Addington Highlands
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
A review of options to optimize material transfer with focus on solar compactors. Recommends exploring partnerships, training and compaction.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipal Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #503.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | Operations | Planning | |
January 6, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Admaston/Bromley
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Plan for Admaston/Bromley |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #522.11 Project #522.10 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
March 5, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Alfred & Plantagenet
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy for Township of Alfred and Plantagenet |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #545.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
March 1, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Arnprior
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Integrated Waste Management Plan and Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
May 29, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Aylmer
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The Town of Aylmer |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 10, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Barrie
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the City of Barrie |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 28, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Billings
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Township of Billings Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 18, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Blind River
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Town of Blind River |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
July 30, 2014
Waste Recycling Plan - Blue Mountains
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Diversion Plan Supplement A |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 14, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Bluewater
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Bluewater Recycling Association |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #559.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
November 30, 2010
Waste Recycling Plan - Bonnechere Valley
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipal Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
May 30, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan - Brantford
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: City of Brantford Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
May 22, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Brockville
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the City of Brockville |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
July 5, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan - Bruce Area Solid Waste Recycling
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
September 25, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Brudenell, Lyndoch & Raglan
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #612.12 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
June 19, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Casselman
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #571.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
August 15, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Central Frontenac
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 11, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Chatham-Kent
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #614.3 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
April 16, 2015
Waste Recycling Plan - Chippewas of Georgina Island
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | First Nations Communities | Planning | |
August 29, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan - Clarence-Rockland
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for Clarence Rockland |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 22, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Cochrane Timiskaming
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 31, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Dutton-Dunwich
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Municipality of Dutton-Dunwich |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
May 29, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Emo
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Class B Environmental Assessment for the Emo Recycling Centre |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #623.12 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 18, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Espanola
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Plan for Espanola |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
August 28, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Essex Windsor
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #513.11 Project #513.4 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
May 9, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Faraday
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Township of Faraday Blue Box Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
April 19, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Fort Frances & Atikokan
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Residential Blue Box Waste Recycling Strategy for the Town of Fort Frances Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Town of Atikokan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #519.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
March 1, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan - Frontenac Islands
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #627.12 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 5, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Gananoque
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Long Term Solid Waste Management Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
September 26, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Greater Madawaska
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
February 15, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Grey Highlands
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Plan for Municipality of Grey Highlands |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #560.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 9, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Haldimand
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipal Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Halton
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Halton Solid Waste Management Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #631.2 Project #631.5 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 18, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Hamilton
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: 2012 Solid Waste Management Master Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
May 10, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Hastings Highlands
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipality of Hastings Highlands Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 31, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan - Head, Clara and Maria
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
August 18, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Kawartha Lakes
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The City of Kawartha Lakes |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #508.4 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
July 22, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Killaloe, Hagarty & Richards
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #553.3 Project #553.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
March 12, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Killarney
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #639.12 Project #639.13 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
March 15, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Kingston
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy 2010-2013 |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
October 16, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Kirkland Lake
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The Town of Kirkland Lake Blue Box Program |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #641.12 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
November 19, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Lanark Highlands
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Integrated Waste Management Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
March 20, 2014
Waste Recycling Plan - London
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the City of London |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
November 17, 2015
Waste Recycling Plan - Loyalist
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #516.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
October 31, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Madawaska Valley
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
August 18, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - McMurrich/Monteith
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan. McMurrich/Monteith Township does not offer curbside recycling so review conducted of depot operations. Recommended better signage, P&E and outreach, e.g. community contest. Also recommended a potential partnership with 13 nearby townships that have worked together in the past, (e.g. share hiring of a waste specialist) and to have recyclables processed at nearby township. The need for monitoring activities identified and explored.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Corporation of the Township of McMurrich/Monteith |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #536.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | Operations | Planning | |
January 1, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Meaford
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The Municipality of Meaford |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
September 16, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan - Mono
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Plan for the Town of Mono |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #546.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 18, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Niagara
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Niagara Region Blue Box Recycling Plan 2011-2015 |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
October 21, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - North Dundas
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #527.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
August 18, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - North Glengarry
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Plan for The Township of North Glengarry |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #557.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 17, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - North Grenville
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The Municipality of North Grenville |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
June 27, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - North Stormont
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The Township of North Stormont |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #526.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
August 18, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Northern Bruce Peninsula
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
July 13, 2014
Waste Recycling Plan - Northumberland
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The County of Northumberland |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Oneida Nation of the Thames
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for Oneida Nation of the Thames |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #626.12 |
| Categories | Best Practices | First Nations Communities | Planning | |
April 19, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Plan for the Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 31, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Oxford
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for Oxford County |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #514.4 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
November 18, 2010
Waste Recycling Plan - Peterborough City
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The City of Peterborough |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
October 31, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan - Prescott
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
August 18, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Russell
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #530.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
August 12, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Sables-Spanish Rivers
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Township of Sables-Spanish Rivers |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 1, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Sault North
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Plan for Sault North Waste Management Council |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #532.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 14, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan - Sioux Lookout
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Report |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 4, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Smith Falls
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Reduction Recycling Plan for the Town of Smith Falls |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
November 4, 2010
Waste Recycling Plan - South Stormont
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
October 3, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - St. Thomas
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Integrated Waste Management Master Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
March 1, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Stone Mills
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #580.1 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
October 30, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Stratford
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The City of Stratford |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 28, 2014
Waste Recycling Plan - Temiskaming Shores
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Recycling System Options |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
February 19, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - The Archipelago
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
March 27, 2014
Waste Recycling Plan - Tri-Neighbours
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Residential Blue Box Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
October 29, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - West Elgin
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Plan for Municipality of West Elgin |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
February 17, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - West Nipissing
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for The Municipality of West Nipissing |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
August 18, 2013
Waste Recycling Plan - Whitestone
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Corporation of the Municipality of Whitestone |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 31, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan - Wollaston
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #674.12 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 18, 2012
Waste Recycling Plan - Woodstock
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Diversion Plan |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 Project #525.4 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
December 30, 2011
Waste Recycling Plan Template Update
Revisions to the CIF blue box recycling template and guidebook to include and address additional plastic materials.
| Documents | Webpage: Waste Recycling Strategy Planning |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | |
January 4, 2012
Waste Recycling Strategy - Brant
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF provided assistance to the County of Brant for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for County of Brant |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #700 Project #701 Project #702 Project #703 Project #705 Project #706 Project #708 Project #709 Project #710 Project #712 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Procurement | |
July 23, 2012
Waste Recycling Strategy - McKellar
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF will provide assistance to municipal programs for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan. McKellar's strategy was developed to reduce depot operating costs, increase awareness of recycling program and diversion. Report identifies better practices and recommends increased P&E, staff training and monitoring the solar powered recycling compactors.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the Township of McKellar |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #215 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | Operations | Planning | |
December 31, 2011
Waste Recycling Strategy - Timmins
Waste Diversion Ontario (now the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority) identified recycling strategies/plans as a best practice. The CIF provided assistance to the City of Timmins for the completion of a Waste Recycling Plan.
| Documents | Final Report: A Waste Recycling Strategy for the City of Timmins |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #700 Project #701 Project #702 Project #703 Project #704 Project #706 Project #708 Project #709 Project #710 Project #712 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Planning | Procurement | |
October 23, 2012
Waste Recycling Strategy Development - Muskoka
Strategy discusses the plan to install eight additional solar powered compactors in depots and the associated costs. Recommendations include purchasing additional compactors for depots, dropping bag limits to one and modifying depot hours to better accommodate seasonal population.
| Documents | Final Report: Waste Recycling Strategy for the District Municipality of Muskoka |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #701 Project #702 Project #703 Project #704 Project #705 Project #708 Project #709 Project #710 Project #712 |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Depots | Operations | Planning | |
December 15, 2013
Waste Shed Analysis
University of Waterloo was to undertake a transportation study to develop waste shed opportunities. Project is closed and was not completed because it became redundant with the AECOM study requested by MIPC (Project #254).
| Documents | Project Synopsis |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #254 Project #367 Project #398 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Planning | Regional Cooperation | |
May 22, 2013
Waterloo Blue Box Program Relaunch: P&E Campaign
Waterloo Region’s multi-media Blue Box Program Re-launch P&E campaign to coincide with the bag limit reduction from the current 10 to a maximum of 4 per set out (reducing to 3 within 2 years) starting in March 2017. A significant focus of the campaign will be residue management, which is critical to the successful introduction of a lower garbage bag limit.
| Documents | Final Report: Promotion and Education campaign to support curbside collection changes |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | Project #946 |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Communication/Education | Policy | |
October 8, 2018
Waterloo MRF Upgrades: Glass Crusher, Optical Sorter & In-Feed Conveyor
Waterloo Region proposes to upgrade sorting capability in their existing MRF by installing a larger capacity optical sorter, glass extraction unit and main line in-feed conveyor.
| Documents | Final Report: MRF Upgrades |
| Blog Post | February 8, 2019: Making Investments in Uncertain Times: ‘How-to’ Advice from Waterloo Region |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | MRF | |
February 10, 2019
WDO - Waste Composition Studies – Year 1
Waste composition studies required to fulfill year one (2016) of the WDO Terms of Reference. Funding partners are Stewardship Ontario and the CIF.
| Documents | Summary Report: CIF/SO Terms of Reference Year 1 4-Season Residential Waste Composition Study Results |
| Blog Post | December 8, 2017: CIF Publishes Year One Report of Provincial Waste Composition Studies |
| Related Projects | Project #1002 (Year 1) Project #1005 (Year 2) Project #1014 (Year 3) Project #1045 (Year 4) Project #1081 (Year 5) Project #1105 (Year 6) Project #1138 (Year 7) |
| Categories | Blue Box Resources | Composition Studies | |
December 10, 2017
West Elgin Depot Upgrades
Purchase bins & upgrade depot in order to participate in London’s regional recycling program.
| Documents | Final Report: Municipality of West Elgin - Depot Upgrade |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Depots | |
December 10, 2018
Whitestone Transfer Station Solar Compactors Project
This project involves the installation of solar powered compactors at each of Whitestone Township’s two transfer stations McDougall to improve hauling efficiencies. The compactors are solar powered and will be equipped with generators as backups for periods where insufficient sunlight is available to meet load demand. Installation of compactors at these two sites is expected to reduce hauling costs by over $40,000/year with a project payback of under 4 years is expected.
| Documents | Final Report: Solar Powered Compactors Project |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Compactors | Innovation | |
July 4, 2013
Yellow Box Purchase for Transition to Two-Stream Collection
This project provides assistance to the Township of Drummond-North Elmsley for the purchase and distribution of a second Blue Box and a promotion & education campaign to support transition to a two-stream alternating week collection program. The second Blue Box will provide additional capacity to store materials between two week collection cycles.
| Documents | Final Report: Yellow Box Purchase for Transition to Two-Stream Collection Program |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Collection | Single/Dual Stream | |
March 17, 2020
York St. Compactor Hydro Upgrade
Project to connect recycling compactors to hydro grid at Township landfill site to provide cost savings.
| Documents | Final Report: York Street Transfer Site - Compactor Hydro Upgrade |
| Blog Post | |
| Related Projects | |
| Categories | Best Practices | Compactors | |
April 26, 2019