2014 Blue Box Rules Not Yet Approved

Blue Box stewards, please be advised that Stewardship Ontario’s 2014 Blue Box Rules have not yet been approved by Waste Diversion Ontario’s Board of Directors due to the uncertainty that currently surrounds the negotiations with municipalities on the 2014 steward obligation.� Those negotiations have now been sent to arbitration, and fees that reflect the actual obligation cannot be calculated until the outcome of the arbitration is known.

Therefore the 2014 Blue Box Program Fee Schedule, which is an Appendix to the 2014 Rules, have not been approved and cannot be used for the calculation of steward invoices at this time.

What impact does this have on 2014 steward invoices?

As an interim measure, Stewardship Ontario must apply the 2013 Fee Schedule rates to the calculation of stewards’ 2014 quarterly invoices, in accordance with Section 5.2 of the Blue Box Rules. The first set of 2014 invoices will be sent out to stewards in early April.�

Questions?
Stewardship Ontario has scheduled a webinar on March 20th, from 10 am � 11 am (ET) to review potential changes to the 2015 fee setting methodology. We will dedicate an additional 10 to 15 minutes at the end of the webinar to answer your questions about this issue.�

To Register for the webinar, click HERE.

If you are unable to attend the webinar, please submit your questions to [email protected].� Please ensure that you put 2014 Blue Box Invoice in the subject line.� We will consolidate all questions and answers into a single document and send it out to Blue Box Stewards.

Kind regards,