Thank you.
Darren, you're a man after my own heart. As you know, I left municipal politics to go fight a megadump, a landfill expansion in my region. I led that fight for 18 years. That fight continues. It really gets at the issue of toxins that exist in our environment and in our landfills that are polluting our waters. After 15 years, we exposed massive off-site contamination, including in six residential wells. Trying to keep these light bulbs and other related toxic substances out of our landfills is very important.
That is why I'd like to ask you a question around the genesis of this bill. We both served in municipal politics, though not together, and we both understand how that works. What led you to decide that this was the key issue you wanted to bring forward as a bill in the House?
The success that you saw locally in reaching that diversion rate of 74% is really impressive.