Ontario, for example, is one of two provinces that doesn’t have a deposit-return program for bottles and cans, fewer than half of which are diverted through existing recycling programs. In Toronto, the diversion rate for multi-unit buildings such as apartments and condominiums is less than 30 per cent, for reasons that are easy to intuit for anyone who has spent any time in one. “Most buildings constructed before the last five or 10 years have a single garbage chute at the end of every floor.