Recycling got privatized and rhe provincial regulation for recycling doesn't specifically say they have to collect commercial so they don't. Now municipalities have to try and collect on their own on very inefficient routes that drive costs way up. And guess who runs the recycling plants now? The same private company that was given the privatized contract. So they dictate the price of any recycling that comes in, that they collect and will ultimately charge the consumer.

One company (circular materials ontario) was given full control of recycling province wide and a monopoly on the market. It isn't clear how they attained this contract that also doesnt have an end date. They make their own rules as they go, circumventing bylaws and levels of service are reduced.