7. (1) A local municipality that has a population of at least 5,000 shall establish, operate and maintain a blue box waste management system if the municipality is served by a waste management system owned by or operated by or for the municipality that collects municipal waste or accepts such waste from the public at a waste disposal site.  O. Reg. 101/94, s. 7 (1). (2) The blue box waste management system must include, (a)  if the waste management system that serves the municipality collects municipal waste directly from residential sources of waste, including buildings that house a number of residences, the collection, directly from those sources, of the source separated blue box waste described in subsection (3); (b)  the acceptance, wherever municipal waste is accepted from the public, of the source separated blue box waste described in subsection (3); (c)  measures to ensure that only blue box waste or waste set out in Schedule 2 is collected or accepted; (d)  the transportation of the waste that is collected or accepted to a municipal waste recycling site as defined in Part IV, to a user of the waste, to a distributor who distributes such waste to users, or to a waste disposal site; (e)  the provision of a municipal waste recycling site as defined in Part IV or the services of such a site to process all the categories of waste collected or accepted; (f)  reasonable efforts to ensure that the waste collected or accepted is processed and used; (g)  the provision of information to users and potential users of the blue box waste management system, (i)  describing the performance of the system, (ii)  encouraging effective source separation of blue box waste and full use of the blue box waste management system.  O. Reg. 101/94, s. 7 (2). (3) The source separated blue box waste referred to in clauses (2) (a) and (b) is blue box waste that has been source separated from other kinds of waste and that consists solely of waste from one or more of the following categories: 1.  The categories of basic blue box waste set out in Schedule 1. 2.  The categories of supplementary blue box waste set out in Schedule 1 that the blue box waste management system collects or accepts.  O. Reg. 101/94, s. 7 (3). (4) The blue box waste management system must collect or accept at least two categories of supplementary blue box waste set out in Schedule 1.  O. Reg. 101/94, s. 7 (4). (5) The frequency of the collection of source separated blue box waste required under clause (2) (a) must be at least half the frequency at which municipal waste is collected directly from the sources of the waste.  O. Reg. 101/94, s. 7 (5). (6) The blue box waste management system must be adequate to deal with the anticipated blue box waste and waste set out in Schedule 2.  O. Reg. 101/94, s. 7 (6). (7) The blue box waste management system must include the provision of adequate containers for the acceptance of source separated blue box waste required under clause (2) (b).  O. Reg. 101/94, s. 7 (7). (8) This section does not apply to a municipality after the date in the Blue Box Transition Schedule that sets out when that municipality will start to receive collection services in accordance with Part IV of Ontario Regulation 391/21 (Blue Box), made under the
Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016. O. Reg. 392/21, .s. 2 (1). Note: On January 1, 2026, section 7 of the Regulation is revoked. (See: O. Reg. 392/21, .s. 2 (2))