Ontario’s environment ministry is backtracking on some proposals to significantly delay recycling targets and kill the expansion of long-planned blue box programs.

In June, the ministry proposed a major overhaul of its recycling regulations to lessen the burden on waste producers who said the province’s plans would lead to significant cost increases. At the time, a ministry spokesperson told the Star that it needed to “increase transparency for all producers and help manage unexpected cost increases — preventing those costs from being passed down to consumers or resulting in job losses.”

The Association of Municipalities of Ontario decried the proposals , saying that lower collection rules mean waste is increasingly dumped in Ontario’s landfills, which are expected to reach capacity

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