Compliance with Best Practices
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Why It's Important
In 2007, the Municipal-Industry Program Committee of Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO) implemented a policy to tie, in part, municipal blue box funding to compliance with the eight fundamental best practices detailed in the KPMG Blue Box Program Enhancement and Best Practices Assessment Project, 2007.
- Complying with best practices (BP) standards will represent 15% of your 2011 blue box funding allocation, rising to 25% of the allocation in 2012. Ensuring that you comply with BP standards will mean that you maintain or improve the funding allocated to your municipality. Failure to comply means your blue box funding allocation will be reduced.
- WDO collects information from municipalities on compliance with blue box best practices through a series of questions in its annual datacall.
| No. | Best Practice in Blue Box* | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Development and implementation of an up-to-date plan for recycling as part of an Integrated Waste Management Plan |
12.5% |
| 2 | Establishing defined performance measures, including diversion targets, monitoring and a continuous improvement program |
25% |
| 3 | Multi-municipal planning approach to collection and processing of recyclables | 8.3% |
| 4/5 | Optimization of operations in collections and processing... following generally accepted principles (GAP) for effective procurement and contract management | 12.5% |
| 6 | Training of key program staff | 8.3% |
| 7 | Appropriately planned, designed and funded promotion and education program | 8.3% |
| 8 | Established and enforced policies that include waste diversion | 25% |
* MIPC table included in November 2010 Ontario Recycler Workshop presentation
CIF has developed a series of time-saving tools and funding programs to help municipalities improve your BP scores when you fill out the annual Datacall BP questions.
CIF Best Practices Tools and Funding Support
Funding support for best practices ranges from 25% to 50%.
| No. | Best Practice | In 2011 CIF will | Link to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waste Management Plans |
Assist municipalities that do not have a current blue box recycling plan to develop a plan. Also, if a municipal recycling plan is five or more years old, CIF will support the update of the plan. | Waste Recycling Planning |
| 2 | Establishing defined performance measures, including diversion targets, monitoring and a continuous improvement program | CIF will support the initiatives to implement best practices. | |
| 3 | Multi-municipal planning approach to collection and processing of recyclables | CIF has made it a priority to fund the development of transfer facilities and MRF upgrades to promote multi-municipal co-operation. | |
| 4/5 | Optimization of operations in collections and processing... following generally accepted principles (GAP) for effective procurement and contract management | CIF has developed tools to help municipalities create documents for procurement, contract management and multi-residential P&E and reporting. | 1. RFP Development Support project 3. Multi-residential Funding |
| 6 | Training of key program staff | CIF staff provide support visits to recycling programs and organizes the twice-annual Ontario Recycler Workshops. | Ontario Recycler Workshops |
| 7 | Approrpriately planned, designed and funded promotion and education programs (for municipalities that have not previously accessed this funding) | CIF has allocated budget to fund municipal P&E projects and also makes available a range of customizable materials through 'The P&E Shop.' | Promotion and Education |
Program funding is derived by setting aside a percentage of the fees that companies contribute to municipalities as their share of the cost of operating Ontario's blue box programs.
