We've been working very closely with the government and support the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment and the federal government in their approach to managing plastic in the environment, in particular, their approach for zero plastic waste.
Our concern with the federal government's impending approach to regulating single-use plastics and plastic pollution in the environment is that they have indicated they want to use the CEPA, Canadian Environmental Protection Act, in particular, schedule 1, which is a list of toxic substances. We find that would create confusion with consumers, particularly those who today are wearing face masks and are doing their take-out in plastic packaging.
More importantly, it's the ambivalence that is a signal to Canadian industry that the government is really not interested in investments in chemistry in the plastics sector. Certainly we agree that plastics in the environment don't belong there. They need to be managed, but we feel there are other tools, including circular economy legislation, that would allow us to properly manage plastics and keep them in the economy.