Owens-Illinois Inc, through its Canadian subsidiary O-I Canada Corp, has critisized the effect of the current Ontario curbside recycling system on glass container recycling in the province. The company expressed its concerns in a five-page letter to members of the Stewardship Ontario Blue Box Funding Review Committee. O-I, which operates two large glass recycling plants in Ontario, says in the letter, "Glass recycling in Ontario is failing - of the 115,000/t recycled glass utilised by OI Canada in 2005, only 46% was sourced from Ontario (80% in 2004)" Of this amount, most of the recycled glass was derived from the Beer Store refund-deposit scheme and not from the single stream system. O-I attacks the "single-stream" blue box collection system which it says means that more glass is being sent to landfill now than just a year ago.
