Environmental Protection Act

Ontario Regulation 102/94
Waste Audits and Waste Reduction Work Plans


Part V - Large Demolition Projects

25. (1) This Part applies to a person who undertakes, on their own behalf or on behalf of another person, a demolition project consisting of the demolition of one or more buildings with a total floor area of at least 2,000 square metres.
(2) In this Part, “demolisher” means a person described in subsection (1).
26. (1) The demolisher shall conduct a waste audit covering the waste that will be generated in the demolition project.
(2) After conducting the waste audit, the demolisher shall prepare a written report of the audit.
27. The demolisher shall prepare a written waste reduction work plan, based on the waste audit, to reduce, reuse and recycle waste generated in the demolition project.
28. The demolisher shall implement the waste reduction work plan.
29. The waste reduction work plan shall include measures for communicating the plan to the workers at the demolition site and, as a minimum, those measures shall require,
(a) that the plan or a summary be posted at the demolition site in a place where most of the workers will see it; and
(b) if a summary is posted, that any worker who requests to look at the plan be allowed to do so.
30. The report of the waste audit and the waste reduction work plan required under this Part shall be prepared before demolition work begins at the site.