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, ministry spokesperson Alexandru Cioban told the Star that the proposals would “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.”

This week, Cioban again stressed the importance of transparency and consumer protections. “Ontario is transitioning to full producer responsibility to ensure producers pay for th

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