Yes. What I would like to do is piggy-back onto what Peter said. Definitely Europe is far in advance, but mind you, we are the ones that did the curbside program first. They came here to learn from us. But just because they have the economic means.... Why do I say they have the economic means we don't have, or we don't use? It is because their disposal fee is £200 per tonne. We echo what Peter says. If our disposal fee in Canada is between $10 and $50, nobody is going to recycle. It is cheaper just to put it in the dump. So what I need to put forward is this: as a regulator, the government can do lots of good to make sure that the disposal takes into consideration the external costs, like our water, the air, and the leachate. If you don't, it means that people will find a cheaper place, a hole in the ground, and you cannot have recycling happen.
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