Absolutely. The consultations about the recycled content mandate that Environment Canada has initiated have been very broad, with stakeholder-rich discussions. There are a lot of very serious questions about the phytosanitary issues associated with certain aspects of the recycled contents.
Low-value products like benches was mentioned. Those are high-value products to parents who sit in parks and watch their kids play.
If we are going to recycle things and we're going to collect those things, we need to deploy them back into the economy in a way that is useful. Some food packaging and some medical devices have very specific requirements, and there are challenges associated with meeting those phytosanitary requirements. In the meantime, let's make more benches. I have a chair in my backyard from the plastic waste from London. It's a very comfortable chair. Don't be so quick to dismiss some of those other uses. Recycled content mandates will work. They will create the economies of scale that will be required to make the improvements needed to our recycling system.
I think all three of us agree that we are not doing a great job at this in Canada. Well, the more we can invest into that system to improve it, the better.
