As we prepare for the new recycling framework in 2026, Toronto recycling carts will be stickered with information about Circular Materials who will manage the recycling program next year.

Here’s what you need to do:

• Please leave your cart(s) out until 7 p.m. on your  recycling collection day. Repeat this process until your cart(s) have been stickered.
• Contact Toronto’s 311 for recycling inquiries until December 31, 2025.
• Contact the number on your cart for recycling inquiries starting January 1, 2026.

Circular Materials is a national not-for-profit organization building an efficient and effective recycling systems where materials are collected, recycled, and returned back to producers to use as recycled content in new packaging and paper.

As the administrator of Ontario’s common collection system, Circular Materials is responsible for operating the new system for blue box materials. Circular Materials is committed to increasing recycling rates across Ontario and ensuring more materials are looped into the circular economy, benefiting both people and the environment.

EPR is a framework in which producers – the businesses that supply paper and packaging to residents – are responsible for managing the end-of-life management of these materials. EPR enables innovation,

operational efficiencies, increased standard levels, and access to materials. It is recognized as one of the most effective mechanisms to improve recycling rates.

EPR is recognized as one of the most effective mechanisms to improve recycling rates and advance a circular economy where materials are collected, recycled, and returned to producers for use as recycled content in new products and packaging.

As of July 3, 2024, Toronto residents are able to place their plastic lined hot and cold beverage cups in their recycling bin as part of a pilot program. This includes hot drink cups used for coffee and tea and cold drink cups used for fountain drinks.

Toronto residents can recycle this material in single and multi-residential homes, long-term care homes, retirement homes and elementary/high schools. Learn more at circularmaterials.ca/beveragecups.