Thanks for the question. I know you know this issue well from your time on municipal council in Halifax.
I think that description of the differences in collection across the country is a really good example of why we're calling on the federal government to use CEPA to harmonize and to create common standards across the country, in order to provide the regulatory framework for industry. Any one municipality only has the ability to manage what's coming in through the blue box, or through commercial recycling streams. No one municipality has the ability to control what's being brought in and sold on the marketplace, or what the global commodity markets are for recycled products. That's why you get this diversity of lists of what can go into the blue box. It's an issue everywhere.
It's particularly confusing, I know, for consumers in the greater Toronto area. The City of Toronto has different rules from Brampton, Mississauga and Vaughan. Public education campaigns that municipalities are leading are reaching the same consumers, and they're confused. What do I put out when I'm at work in Toronto? What do I put in the blue box when I'm at home in Brampton? Each municipality is dealing with the marketplace for recycled materials. They're dealing with recyclers in Canada or abroad, and they take different materials.
Canada internationally is still a small market, of course, but I think it's our best shot at sending the right signals to industry to coordinate the design of packaging, so that it maximizes what's recyclable, and the value in those products.