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Instructions - PLEASE DOWNLOAD SPREADSHEET INDIVIDUALLY
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Please use this spreadsheet to report all of the provincial Blue Box material your department/entity distributed to consumers during the 2023 calendar year (January-December).

Questions can be directed to Ledah McKellar, Sustainability Coordinator, <lpmckell@lakeheadu.ca>, ext. 8703.
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Rational for reporting on your department
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The Blue Box Regulation O. Reg 391/21 requires Lakehead University to register and report with the RPRA as an Ontario Blue Box Producer. We are obligated to inventory and report the total kilograms of packaging, paper products, or packaging-like products that were distributed to Ontario consumers each year. This regulation is separate from our private institutional waste collection. This is a provincial regulation and only relates to materials that could end up in the Blue Box system.

Consumers are defined under the Blue Box Regulation as individuals who use a "product and its packaging for personal, family, or household purposes". A person or brandholder is considered "a producer" under the Blue Box Regulation if they supply Blue Box material (packaging, paper products or packaging-like products) comprised of paper, glass, metal or plastic, or a combination of these materials to consumers in Ontario. Items distributed to consumers outside of Ontario are not eligible. Items where the intended audience is institutional-related (i.e. internal agendas) or that will be recycled ON CAMPUS (i.e. will enter the University waste collection system) are not eligible.

Blue Box materials eligible for this report must be packaging, paper products or packaging-like products that are branded to the University (i.e. include the University logo) or be unbranded. For example, this includes viewbooks, Strategic Extension Plan, bookmarks, paper bills. Items branded by other brandholders (i.e. Starbucks, Coca Cola) are not eligible and are the responsibility of the respective brandholder. For example: if you distributed plastic bottles at an event, the plastic bottle company would take ownership of reporting on them. Only if we added our logo to these single-use bottles would we claim ownership.

Non-packaging related items are not elligble for reporting. For example, these may include t-shirts, plastic clipboards, reusable water bottles. Please see Eligible and Ineligible Materials List for more information.

Source: https://rpra.ca/programs/blue-box/regulation/producers/
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Further clarification on paper products, packaging, and packaging-like materials
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Paper ProductsNewspaper
Magazine
Promotional Material
Directories
Paper (copy, writing, general use, etc.)
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Blue Box PackagingPrimary packaging (cardboard, plastic, cardboard tray for case of pop, etc.)
Transport packaging (pallets, bale wrap, etc.)
Convenience packaging (supplied to end-user to ease handling - bag, box, etc.)
Service accessories (straw, cutlery, plate, etc.)
Ancillary elements (integrated elements - a cap, mascara brush, toy on top of candy package, etc.)
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Packaging-like ProductsAluminum Foil
Plastic Film
Plastic Bag
Wrapping Paper
Beverage Cup
Envelope		Additional Characteristics:
Used for containment, protection, handling, delivery, presentation or transportation of thing/s
Meant for single use
Not used as packaging when supplied to end user
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