Thanks to everyone for their excellent presentations.
We just came back from two weeks in our constituencies. I talked to a lot of schools. I will tell you that in the high school that I spoke at, there was a grade 12 student whose sister is in grade 9 and was in the library texting the questions to ask me, and they were all about plastic solutions and asking for immediate action on this. It sort of follows on the comment that Mr. Sandborn was making about a seven-year-old—but I'll tell you, this is a top-of-mind issue, particularly for students.
For a lot of my questions, I'm just hoping.... We're all trying to get to recommendations. We'd love to study this for a really long period of time, but we have a very limited number of sittings left. We really want to get to some solutions.
I'll think I'll start with you, Mr. Sandborn. You talked quite a bit about how places such as France and California and the European Union are doing a really great job in terms of limiting single-use plastics. I want to ask you whether or not there's been some data that shows progress and whether there are some underlying principles that drive their decisions around what single-use plastics to avoid. Do you have recommendations for us about where we start? Because I think we're looking to start somewhere, and I wonder if you might start off by answering some of those questions.