I'm from Calgary, Alberta. I have a green box, a blue box and a black box. That is very confusing for some. Sometimes I find it confusing. Can I put a used pizza box in the recycling box, or does it have to go in composting? By the way, it has to go in composting because it has cheese and oil on it.
What we have now is better than what we had before. I believe there are 500 or 600 municipalities, both urban and rural, in Ontario. There are about 470 in Alberta. They were all different. They weren't talking to each other. The incentives were completely different. Municipalities were dealing with their waste at the lowest cost because that's what they were concerned about. Now, with extended producer responsibility, the system's talking to itself. The right incentives are there for those bringing plastics into the marketplace. It should get better.
It's just like everything else. These EPR systems have to take a look at what they are achieving yearly on a two-, three- or five-year basis. That's continuous improvement, and we should focus on it, but it's way better now than it was.