By Pepper Parr
January 7th, 2026
BURLINGTON, ON
Get ready for delay and confusion with waste management and garbage.
Municipalities are no longer picking up Blue Box waste.
A new provincial body, Circular Materials Ontario (CMO), is now managing Ontario’s blue box recycling system, shifting responsibility from municipalities to producers of the beverage cups, tooth paste tube – you name it. The result is simplified, expanded recycling rules province-wide, allowing residents to recycle more items.
It is going to take time to get it working smoothly.
Customer service with CMO is terrible – 45 minute waits.
There will be a lot more mechanization in waste removal – the producers of the waste material are now responsible for removing it. Municipalities will still handle the garbage – but not the blue bins.
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Let’s face it…. anything that is initiated by the Ford government will be a complete f**k-up..From license plates to bike lanes to nursing homes. Cuts to health care, to education, but there’s always lots of cash for his pet projects… luxury spa, casinos, Ferris wheel, digging a tunnel inferno the 401.
When does this start in Burlington?