What You Need to Know: Transition Plan for Automotive Materials Service Providers Including: Transporters, Processors and Municipalities Purpose To assist transporters, processors and municipalities with the transition from Stewardship Ontario to Automotive Materials Stewardship for the management of used antifreeze, oil containers and oil filters. Background The Automotive Materials Stewardship (AMS) industry stewardship program for the management of used antifreeze, oil containers and oil filters launches on April 1, 2017. Read more »
WDO Board Approves Automotive Materials Stewardship (AMS) ISP On August 10, the WDO Board approved Automotive Materials Stewardship (AMS) ISP to manage automotive materials (antifreeze/antifreeze containers, oil filters, and oil containers) with an effective date of no sooner than January 1, 2017. The ISP was approved following consultations from February 26 – April 29, 2016 that included an online survey, webinar, posting on the Environmental Bill of Rights Registry, and opportunities to speak to WDO by phone or in person. Read more »
AMS Consultation Webinar – April 5 & 7, 2016 WDO has announced that they’ve received an Industry Stewardship Plan (ISP) from the Automotive Materials Stewardship Inc. (AMS) to manage antifreeze/antifreeze containers, oil filters, and oil containers. The ISP is available here. Webinars were held on April 5 and 7, 2016 to introduce the ISP to stewards. View the presentation View the Q&A You can participate in the AMS ISP consultations by: An online survey here; By visiting the Environmental Bill of Rights Registry (“the EBR”) once the ISP has been posted for comment; and/orBy phone or in-person by contacting Mary Cummins (marycummins@wdo.ca Read more »
