I regard that problem as a temporary problem. It's an interim solution we need, because the time will come when we'll be able to recycle everything. The interim solution should absolutely not be incineration.
There are now methods of doing landfill—and I say this with caution, because I don't want to be seen to be advocating landfill—in sealed containers, which totally prevents any leakage out into the groundwater. I believe that the small amount of residual material—if we now could reach, as Markham and California are reaching, and Halifax, for example, over 80%, and approaching 90%, and heading for 100%—should be committed to this secure and insulated landfill, again as a temporary solution to the problem until new recycling techniques are developed.
As we have not yet made a thrust towards recycling as a new industry, this remains to be done. It remains to be developed. But from the reading I've done—everything I've read convinces me—I'm absolutely sure that the time will come when everything will be recyclable. We have to encourage manufacturers to make materials that are recyclable. We have to discourage manufacturers from making unrecyclable plastics, for example. Packaging must be made in materials that are recyclable.
I believe an entire switch in our mentality and in the industrial approach to this problem is necessary, but it can be done and it will be the ultimate solution.