Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Ms. Kagan, for all the information you have brought to the committee.
I want to continue on the notion of packaging and waste. I know there are many different types of plastic. When I go into a store I see a lot of different types.
I understand your remarks with regard to that zip-lock bag that's going to preserve the cheese or whatever, longer, but there are also incredible amounts of packaging used in the big box stores. I don't know if it's because big box stores demand efficiency. They want to have products shipped effectively and display them and make sure they are protected or attractive for the consumer.
I'm coming back to all these plastics and wondering if you look at the different types of plastics because I know some are very difficult to deal with. Some are next to impossible to recycle. From my experience very often these types of plastics end up in energy from waste and produce frightening levels of dioxin.
I know people keep talking about scrubbers and all that sort of thing, but the reality is when these more dangerous types of plastics are incinerated they are reduced to ash that is about one third of the original, which is a lot, and they have to be disposed of as toxic waste.
Does your organization look at, recommend, discuss with manufacturers, with your clients, these different kinds of plastics, and what to avoid and how to do a better job of keeping these quite dangerous plastic products out of the chain?