Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority
The Blue Box Regulation O. Reg 391/21 requires Lakehead University to register and report with the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) as an Ontario Blue Box Producer. We are obligated to inventory and report the total kilograms of packaging, paper products, or packaging-like products that were distributed to Ontario consumers each year. This regulation is separate from our private institutional waste collection. This is a provincial regulation and only relates to materials that could end up in the Blue Box system.
For more information, please see the following materials:
2023 RPRA Data Collection Spreadsheet for Units