Ontario Green Screen

Ontario Green Screen’s New Waste Sorting Kits


OGS is pleased to offer a selection of Waste Sorting Kits that you can download for free. These kits are regionally specific to seven jurisdictions across Ontario. There is also one generic kit that can be used for regions/municipalities that are not represented in the templates.
The seven jurisdictions are: Durham Region, Hamilton, Mississauga, North Bay, Ottawa, Sudbury and Toronto. A handy information sheet can be downloaded from the folder, providing more information and links to municipal waste departments.

To download the OGS Waste Sorting Kit that best suits your needs, click on the link below


OGS Waste Sorting Kits

Ontario Green Screen Summer Community Meeting

Date: Tuesday July 30, 2024
Time: 7-8:30pm EST
Location: Zoom

We gather on a quarterly basis to provide program updates, share stories and best practices, and build community. Please join us!
Registration is free and open now. See you there!

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Day-to-day choices made in transportation can have a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Find out more by downloading our best practice resource guide on Transportation.

To read the guide, please click on the image to the right.
















The Film and TV industry in Ontario is cutting carbon emissions by choosing clean power alternatives. Find out how you can tie into the clean power revolution on your production.

To read the guide, please click on the image to the right.
















Incorporating circular design principles into Production design and set construction can really make a difference in production waste at wrap. Find out more by downloading our latest Best Practices Resource Guide for Circular Production Design.

To read the guide, please click on the image to the right.














Throughout the month of April, best practice guides for sustainable production will be published here to help you make a difference in the film and television industry.
Learn best practices to reduce the environmental footprint of Craft and Catering on set with the first of four new Best Practice guides.

To read the guide, please click on the image to the right.









NEW Ontario Green Screen, Grid Tie-in Map


Ontario Green Screen is proud to launch our province-wide electrical grid tie-in map in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This map provides access to clean grid power at locations across the Province.
Grid Tie-in Map
For quick tips on plugging into clean power in Ontario, download our easy reference One-sheet.
Grid Tie-in Reference Sheet
We're looking for more tie-in points. Please register your locations below.
Grid Tie-in Registration Form

Ontario Green Screen, Strategic Plan

We are proud to present the Ontario Green Screen 2023-2027 Strategic Plan. Ontario Green Screen (OGS) is made possible through a partnership between Ontario Creates, industry, and municipal partners, representing all aspects of the industry across the province. Collectively, we have a shared passion to facilitate sustainable production practices.

We created the OGS Strategic Plan in collaboration with the OGS Advisory Committee and industry subject matter experts. This plan lays out specific, measurable and timely goals for the initiative, over the next four years:

  • We commit to fostering an engaged, diverse, inclusive, and collaborative community that advances and enables sustainable production practices.
  • We commit to informing and educating Ontario’s film and television industry stakeholders about sustainability best practices.
  • We commit to delivering resources, tools, and initiatives to empower individuals to incorporate sustainable strategies and protocols that will help reduce the negative environmental impacts of film production across Ontario.
  • We commit to creating a framework to effectively measure and report on environmental impacts and industry-wide progress.

  • Click on the image to the right to read the full plan


Advancing Waste Management Practices in Ontario’s Film and Television Industry





Ontario Creates and Ontario Green Screen commission report to benchmark waste practices across film and television productions of varying sizes and identify opportunities to facilitate material reuse. This study was generously supported Telefilm Canada.

To read the full report, please click on the image to the right.










In 2019, Ontario Creates engaged a sustainability working group comprised of interested industry organizations, service providers, unions, guilds and individual stakeholders. The results of the consultations were clear. The industry was actively looking for tools and training resources for sustainable film production practices, pathways to lower carbon emissions, reduced waste and a means to incorporate sustainable on-set management across the film and television sector.

Ontario Green Screen is the collaborative initiative between government, industry partners, unions, guilds, trade associations and companies that endeavours to make lasting change in the industry and to empower individuals, production companies and studios to make sustainable choices.

Ontario Green Screen Mission Provide the tools necessary to empower the motion picture industry in Ontario to incorporate and scale up environmentally sustainable best practices that lead to the well-being of our environment.

Ontario Green Screen Vision Ontario Green Screen envisions a robust industry that thrives through its commitment to environmental stewardship, made possible by a non-political partnership of industry stakeholders and government partners across the province.

Governance Ontario Green Screen is co-chaired by Ontario Creates' Film Commissioner and an nominated/elected industry co-chair. The co-chairs work with an advisory committee of partners to prioritize and deliver project initiatives and to reach goals set out by the multi-year strategic plan.

Creative Industries Pact
Ontario Green Screen is proud to be a signatory to the Creative Industries Pact.
Would you like to learn more about the Pact?

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