We have a bit of a throwaway culture. We're going to have to deal with that. There is no “away” with plastic. It all goes somewhere. I have a community in my riding of Carleton that could possibly be the site of a future landfill. They're very concerned about that. Whether that garbage goes to our riding or someplace else in Canada, or migrates around the world, someone is paying a price for that. Also, someone is profiting from that.
How do we balance the desire to have the benefits that plastics have delivered—I don't argue that there are some benefits—with mitigating the toxic mass they're creating in our environment?