Waste diversion in Ontario has stalled around 25 percent over the last decade. While most of the success is coming from the residential sector, where 47 percent of household waste is diverted from landfill, the diversion rate for the rest of the economy is much lower. Existing waste diversion programs established under the Waste Diversion Act, 2002 cover only 15 percent of Ontario's waste stream and no new programs have been established under this Act since 2009. Failure to take action has economic and environmental consequences, including the loss of valuable resources, the lost opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the dwindling capacity of Ontario's landfills and the increasing pressure on municipal taxpayers and industries to fund diversion efforts and rising costs. Ontario's draft Strategy recognizes that the current "produce-use-dispose" model is not sustainable. The Strategy, when implemented would move Ontario toward a circular economy - a system where nothing is wasted and valuable materials destined for landfill are put back into the economy without negative effects on the environment. This approach will reduce greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change, save scarce resources, create jobs and capitalize on financial opportunities. The draft Strategy embraces a vision of "an Ontario where we have zero waste and zero greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector and where all resources, organic or non-organic, are used and reused productively, maximizing their recovery and reintegrating recovered materials back into the economy." Ontario's vision would be fulfilled with the draft Strategy's two goals: a zero waste Ontario and zero greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector.