Invoices for the subsequent year, along with instructions on how to access the invoices, are emailed to both the primary and billing contacts on January 1.
Payments for the 2025 obligation year are payable in equal installments as follows:
- 1st payment: January 31, 2026
- 2nd payment: April 30, 2026
- 3rd payment: July 31, 2026
- 4th payment: October 31, 2026
Stewards who fail to pay their invoices by the dates specified above may be subject to penalty and interest payable in accordance with the MMSM Steward Rules.
Stewards that are required to file a report but are exempt from payment because the kilograms generated fees less than $250 will not receive an invoice.
MMSM may assess a penalty of 10% on the fees owed for those Stewards who fail to file a Steward’s Report by May 31, 2026. Interest charges may be assessed by MMSM (at the proscribed Interest Rate) for those stewards who do not pay all fees outstanding by dates listed below:
Penalties and Interest Charges for 2026 Rules
| Steward Action | Penalties and Interest Charges Assessed | Effective date of penalty charge |
| Steward fails to file a Report to MMSM by May 31, 2026 | Penalty of 10% may be assessed on the amount due and payable as of the date the Steward files its Steward’s Report. | June 1, 2026 |
| Steward fails to pay fees in full by deadlines outlined in Appendix B of the Rules | ||
| Steward Deadline | Due date | Start date of interest charges |
| First payment due (25% of 2026 Obligation) | January 31, 2026 | February 1, 2026 |
| Second payment due (25% of 2026 Obligation) | April 30, 2026 | May 1, 2026 |
| Third payment due (25% of 2026 Obligation) | July 31, 2026 | August 1, 2026 |
| Fourth payment due (25% of 2026 Obligation) | October 31, 2026 | November 1, 2026 |
Materials for the 2025 Annual Producer Meeting
- 2025 APM Presentation
- 2025 APM Webinar Recording
- Fee Rate Cause of Change – graphs have been developed to illustrate the factors driving changes from 2025 to 2026.
- Report to Producers
2026 Material Fee Rates – This file maps 2026 material fee rates with program material categories in a user-friendly format.
2026 Material Fee Rates – Spreadsheet version.
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To determine their contributions, most Stewards are required to file Steward’s Reports with MMSM and pay fees based on an applicable fee schedule. The fees are calculated on a per-material basis in each program year and automatically programmed within the online reporting system.
The Four-Step Fee Methodology was approved in 2016 following extensive steward consultation.
Fee methodologies are an allocation tool used to determine each material’s share of the total amount stewards must pay to finance recycling programs for packaging and printed paper. Each year, material fee rates (expressed in cents per kilogram) are determined by dividing the allocated dollar amount for a material by the number of supplied tonnes of that material.