The Reducing Single-Use Program (RSU)
Reducing single-use and takeaway items supports recommendations in the City’s Long Term Waste Management Strategy (Waste Strategy) and will help the City of Toronto become a zero waste and circular city.
The program is designed to encourage and enable businesses like yours to take small steps to reduce their use and distribution of single-use and takeaway items such as straws, eating utensils, beverage cups, shopping bags, polystyrene foam and black plastic containers.
Why Join?
The federal government has already enacted a Single-Use Plastics Prohibition Regulation to ban and restrict some of these items.
The proposed mandatory measures (i.e. bylaws) for the Single-Use and Takeaway Items Reduction Strategy will be presented for City Council consideration in 2023.
Reducing Single-Use (RSU) program benefits include:
Access to resources for your business to successfully comply with existing and upcoming restrictions to transition away from single-use and takeaway items
Participation in an online City Directory to let residents know where they can shop to reduce waste and connect businesses with service providers that will help them reduce single-use waste.
A webinar and workshop series on a variety of topics including practical ways to take action to reduce single-use waste, best practices in accepting reusables from your customers, alternatives to foam and black plastic containers, and more.
CLICK HERE to learn more and sign-up.
