The potential for diverting the materials for reuse and recycling and for depollution is in the hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year.
Our research did divide that up across the types of materials. I won't belabour you with the statistics right now, but I will just say that while there is not a bad amount of metal recycling, the potential is still much greater. Also, the plastic recycling is very underutilized in terms of what's going on in Canada. As well, batteries, fluids, and the other hazardous materials need much more attention than is currently taking place, because of the fact that we saw that 65% of the vehicles are not necessarily going to certified recyclers.
Thank you for the opportunity to present to you today. As I indicated at the outset, if the committee has questions on some of the other specific areas of our work, we'd be happy to provide that, but we thought it would be useful to focus on a really specific sector that we had studied in depth.