Blue box recycling system

For example, the City of Greater Napanee accepts: The municipality provides the blue boxes to residents in areas serviced by the recycling program.

Tenants of apartment buildings typically do not use blue boxes but rather deposit their household recyclable materials in larger containers made available.

An organization called Pollution Probe was formed in 1969 by students and faculty at the University of Toronto and in 1971, members published a report stressing the need for recycling.

cummings, Is Five organized Canada's first multi-material curbside pickup of recyclable material for 80,000 households of The Beaches neighbourhood of east Toronto.

In 1977, Jack McGinnis and Derek Stephenson created a private consulting company, Resource Integration Systems (RIS) to advise governments in the field of recycling and waste management.

In 1978, Jack McGinnis and Eric Hellman and others met in the basement of the Trinity United Church on Yonge Street in Toronto and created the Recycling Council of Ontario.

[1][2] In 1981, after close cooperation with Nyle Ludolph, RIS submitted a proposal to Laidlaw to collect and recycle materials at the curbside for a pilot project in Kitchener, Ontario.

Laidlaw was successful in obtaining the waste management contract for Kitchener, and the blue box system had its commercial launch.

City staff simply followed previous procedures – i.e., no specific requirement to offer recycling services was included in bid documents.

Laidlaw chose to submit a bid that included continuation of the blue box service while their competitors, mainly large US-based firms, did not.