Again, we'll go back to some of the numbers. We are focused here on solving a problem that represents something far less than 5% of Canada's or North America's exported waste, and then the portion of it that's not recycled is even smaller. I'm not discounting the environmental issues involved with that, but I think the committee's time, especially given the challenge and the opportunity to create a circular economy for plastic waste, could focus on what's going to help solve the problem, not worrying about that small 1% or 2%.
As mentioned, it is a highly integrated economy, and the issue of innovation.... Recycling isn't a fixed point. It's not one solution. There are many different solutions, and as we've heard from some of the witnesses here, the solutions come all the time.
One of the challenges we have as an industry is related to some of the technologies we would like to see to reprocess these materials to get them back into resins. Whenever discussions take place about chemical recycling or turning them into non-crude fuels, many of our critics say that it's not recycling. As an industry, you're coming up with innovative solutions to manage these problems and you're constantly told that it's not recycling.
You'll quickly understand why we have such strong concerns about a bill that doesn't define “recycling” or “final disposal”. We have to have many innovations in the next 10 years, and as Madame Pauzé said, we don't know what's going to happen. We know there have to be a lot of solutions, and they're not in our line of sight right now. Therefore, we have to be careful to draft something that leaves a lot of flexibility for the future solutions for recovering and adding value on this very important issue in the years to come.