04/22/2015
As communicated to members last Friday, AMO/City of Toronto and Stewardship Ontario (SO) have not been able to agree on the value of the 2015 Steward Obligation for the 2015 payments to municipalities for blue box services. AMO/City of Toronto and SO made presentations to Waste Diversion Ontario’s (WDO) Board of Directors last week to outline our respective positions. AMO/City of Toronto have requested that WDO should use the methodology the Arbitrator, Mr. Armstrong, used to decide the 2014 Steward Obligation and that interim funding be provided to municipalities in 2015 while the Steward Obligation is being determined. Following the presentations, the WDO Board has directed: