The federal government needs to move faster and more deeply towards eliminating harmful and unnecessary single-use products from our lives. You can ban more single-use products. Then work with every level of government to ramp up reuse systems to replace single-use. To me, those would be the top two priorities for government policy.
When it comes to the science and technology agenda, we need to get a better hold on the pathways of plastic pollution and the impacts on our health. The federal government should definitely be focusing on that so that we can know ultimately, when it comes to prioritizing, which plastics have a social use. I'm not somebody who says we're never going to have plastics anymore. We will probably still have plastic, but we need to decide when the benefits outweigh the costs. We are nowhere near doing that now.
The low-hanging fruit is obviously single-use plastic packaging. Let's start there. The government has done a very good job of starting there. It's just that we need to go faster and further to get to the goal of zero plastic waste.