The organization created to oversee the recycling of tires, batteries or electronics in Ontario is not providing proper oversight of “low-priority” producers — giving “free riders” a pass on enforcement, the province’s auditor general has found.

The Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA), a non-profit corporation that requires producers to pay for the recycling of their products, is “not effectively enforcing registration of smaller producers, allowing some to avoid their obligations to collect and recover waste,” said the report from auditor general Shelley Spence.

By focusing its enforcement on large producers, RPRA allows smaller companies to avoid oversight even though “collectively their supply could add up,” Spence’s report said.

RPRA agreed to the auditor general’s r

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