When it comes to standards on recycled content, we are in favour of increasing the use of recycled content in packaging products, when that is feasible. Increasing recycled content will also develop secondary markets of materials collected to be turned into new packaging products. A national standard on recycled content would support or even increase the quantities of materials already collected in Canadian homes.
However, as it was said earlier, a Canadian standard in this area will need to be developed while keeping in mind that supply chains are now integrated across the continent, even across the globe. Alignment must be achieved with what has been done in other countries to find inspiration in best practices and to ensure that any Canadian approach would make sense and be relevant.
We are also favourable to a well-defined and easy-to-understand standard, but it must also lead to positive effects on the environment compared with the status quo. So creating incentives to promote recycled content is an element that is really important to us.