Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Welcome to both of our witnesses.
Let me turn my attention to Dr. Allen.
Dr. Allen, I'm going to give you a chance to finish your thoughts, but before I do, I have a bit of a preamble.
I heard you, and I also heard that this is the last day of witnesses for the study. We've been meeting now for a number of weeks. We have heard loud and clear how plastic is affecting our water and, as you said, water, food and air, everything we breathe, with environmental and health risks and so on, even in the water that we're drinking. You also mentioned in your introduction that in 50 years we haven't been able to solve it using plastics.
You were starting to tell us about better alternatives for safer and more sustainable material. In what is both an environmental and a health crisis, we have to solve these problems. I'm going to ask you to start back from the first thing that you were trying to start with—the better alternatives and what we can do as a federal government. Some of it involved other levels of government, but also, more importantly, where does industry come in and where do consumers come in?
I'm going to give you the rest of my time to really hash out that particular question for me. I think that would be very helpful coming from you.