Okay. As the slide mentions, the working group is currently establishing a prevention and diversion policy and guidelines for government. The hope is that, as was described, this amount of waste does not end up there. We're hoping to model this after a number of different jurisdictions and situations.
For instance, just yesterday, Vancouver City Council passed a deconstruction resolution. It will allow us to force any demolition of any house that is currently older than 1940 and deemed to have “character”, at a 90% diversion rate. This is the first stage. It is a longer process and is slightly more expensive, but the cost is relatively small in comparison to the overall cost of the house. It's about $5,000, whereas it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to create a house, but we end up with a 90% diversion rate coming out as a result.
The working group was just formed. The mandate is to try to recycle. We're looking to perhaps increase some of our current region-wide bans. For instance, we have a ban on clean wood waste in the Metro Vancouver region. That could be something that is layered in across the country as well.
Essentially, what we're looking for is not quite specific to the ICI group, but consistency across our nation, I think, is important for industry and businesses. I think we've talked a lot about government today, whether local, provincial, or federal government, but the major component of this is business. We believe that it would be a competitive advantage for Canada if we were able to redirect resources that would normally flow through the consumer into our landfills or some incineration plant and able to have the beneficial use of that waste as it's reused. But it's more important not to have it happen in the first place. I think that's the focus for all of our working groups, including the group related to construction and building waste.