Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is weakening recycling rules that are set to kick in next year, though not by quite as much as it initially proposed.
It's part of a transition the province is making toward having producers pay for the blue box system, meant to lessen costs for municipalities and encourage the companies to use more easily recyclable materials.
Those producers' obligations were set to increase next year but due to sharply rising recycling costs — which the government attributes to inflation, labour shortages and supply chain bottlenecks — the Environment Ministry proposed ways to ease the burden on those companies.