{"id":242845,"date":"2026-01-17T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/242845\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:46:10","slug":"recycling-begins-to-improve-in-peel-region-after-2k-complaints-clog-phone-lines-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/242845\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling begins to improve in Peel Region after 2K complaints clog phone lines &#8211; Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish says the new, privately-operated recycling pickup in Peel Region appears to be operating better after its troubled launch saw more than 2,000 complaints clog municipal phone lines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Across the province, at the beginning of the year, recycling moved from the umbrella of local governments to a non-profit group \u2014 Circular Materials \u2014 organized by private sector companies like Costco, Loblaw and McDonald\u2019s after changes to provincial law.<\/p>\n<p>The move shifts responsibility for recycling from municipalities to the companies whose products create packaging, but its launch was far from smooth.<\/p>\n<p>In the Region of Peel, some 2,000-plus complaints were lodged by confused and frustrated residents in a single day as pickups stalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was throughout Mississauga and actually throughout the whole Region of Peel. Brampton were getting calls, we were getting calls, calls were going into the region, and they were getting jammed there,\u201d Parrish told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a bit of a rough start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the frustration was the fact that Circular Materials subcontracted their work to GFL, the same company the Region of Peel had relied upon before the switch. It meant for residents not following closely, the same trucks and crews stopped reliably picking up recycling overnight.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difficulty is they\u2019re following different instructions. Everything was as smooth as glass when Peel was giving GFL their instructions,\u201d Parrish said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m guessing they want to save money. I think the purpose of hiring them and doing it in bulk all over Ontario is that they\u2019re eventually going to save money on the actual collection end of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Politics<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Circular Materials, who Parrish said had not been \u201cterribly cooperative\u201d with the region, said collection would improve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome residents in the Peel regional experienced delays to recycling collection service due to extreme weather conditions and high volume,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Ontario representing the largest recycling transition ever undertaken in Canada, there have been some early transition challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issues in Peel were replicated in parts of Toronto as the overall transition stuttered.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11617010\/canada-china-trade-deal-trump-us-reaction\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CP175634932.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump calls Canada-China deal \u2018good thing\u2019 as U.S. officials voice concern\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11616824\/boy-killed-dad-go-to-bed-nintendo-switch\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-1041936362.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t11-year-old U.S. boy charged with killing father after being told to go to bed\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ontario Premier Doug Ford, however, said the difficulties were to be expected with a new system.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith anything when you start, if you change things and make a move, you\u2019re going to have a few kinks,\u201d he told reporters this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m very confident, in the next week or two, I know our officials are meeting with them today, they\u2019re going to get it all straightened out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The premier also snapped at municipalities which he felt had complained, saying they could have the cost of recycling back if they weren\u2019t happy with the new system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe uploaded (this). Used to be producers 50 per cent, municipalities 50 per cent,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I\u2019m a good guy and I love municipalities, I uploaded everything \u2026 so the other option for all the municipalities that want to complain \u2014 especially some of the lefties down at Toronto \u2014 why don\u2019t you take the 50 per ent (back) and start paying it. You can run your own recycling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parrish, who said Ford had \u201csaid it how it is,\u201d suggested collections appeared to be improving this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally, complaints are down,\u201d she wrote in a text.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish says the new, privately-operated recycling pickup in Peel Region appears to be operating better&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,26646,48427,130509,238,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-242845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mississauga","12":"tag-ontario-politics","13":"tag-peel-regional-police","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}