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Information Reported
Ontario’s online annual reporting data includes most of the information submitted by regulated facilities, including: company name, address, sector and National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) identification number, and the amounts of toxic substances used, created, contained in product, and released, disposed and recycled at the facility.
The toxic substances reported under the Toxics Reduction Act are the same as the substances reported under NPRI, with the addition of acetone. Although NPRI contains 347 substances and substance groupings, facilities in Ontario that report to the Toxics Reduction program reported on 240 of these substances in 2015.
Facilities’ plan summaries, which are a snapshot of a facility’s toxic substance reduction plans, are also posted online. The plan summaries include any option(s) that the facility intends to implement, or is currently implementing, to reduce toxics use, creation or releases. It also includes estimated reductions of the substances. If a facility is not implementing an option to reduce at this time, the plan summaries will include the reasons for not implementing.
The information and analysis provided in this report originate from data received from facilities’ 2012-2015 annual reports and their 2011-2014 plan summaries (all data submitted as of September 14, 2016).
The majority of facilities reporting are categorized as small or medium-sized (500 employees or less). 1,037 facilities submitted reports in 2015, and 71% of these facilities reported between 1 and 5 substances. Refer to the graph below on ‘Number of Facilities by Number of Substances Reported in 2015’.