Government of Ontario Creates Digital Registry for Hazardous Waste
Registration and reporting requirements to support electronic service delivery and require the regulated community to provide reporting information to the Resource Recovery and Productivity Authority
The Government of Ontario has been working with the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) to ensure waste is properly stored, transported, recycled, recovered, and disposed of by modernizing primarily paper-based hazardous reporting service to a digital one.
The new digital registry will help 40,000+ businesses and institutions meet reporting requirements and reduce the amount of paper reports they need to complete and file.
It also intends for more efficient compliance monitoring and timely enforcement actions for the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks to help ensure polluters are held accountable.
The regulated community will now provide reporting information to RPRA through the digital registry instead of to the ministry.
Additional changes include:
clarifying reporting requirements,
requiring use of new digital reporting service instead of paper manifest as of Jan 1, 2023,
allowing generators of hazardous waste to delegate reporting requirements with a written agreement in place,
changes to annual registration, and
general changes to provide more clarity.
The new regulation will carry over existing fee exemptions from Regulation 347 to the new digital reporting service and outline other fee setting requirements that RPRA must follow when recovering the cost of the program.
The new regulation will carry over existing fee exemptions from Regulation 347 to the new digital reporting service and outline other fee setting requirements that RPRA must follow when recovering the cost of the program.
On July 1, 2022, amendments to existing definitions and the clarification that a tonnage fee can only be charged once for a subject waste, either when it is disposed of at the site it is generated at, or at the time it is transported from the generator to be treated or disposed of comes into effect. All other requirements come into effect January 1, 2023.
The ministry will continue to maintain compliance, enforcement, and program and policy oversight of the Hazardous Waste program.
RPRA will maintain the Registry and support Registry users.
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