There was a tremendous uptick in single-use plastic utilization during that period of time for a number of different reasons. In fact, supply chains—in terms of both recycling and production—were shut down, if not slowed. There was stockpiling of materials. It got to a point where there wasn't sufficient room and it wasn't cost-effective to stockpile them anymore, so they were landfilled. There may be some skewing of the numbers as a result of the pandemic, for sure.
I think single-use plastics are replacing some other types of packaging specific to the packaging portion of the plastics faction. I know there is more data that we're collecting from outside the home, that is, away-from-home consumption, on the go or in our parks. Litter is part of that as well.
It's also what's being consumed and eventually discarded in the commercial-institutional sector. Canada doesn't have very good data there. We have extraordinarily accurate data on residential because of producer responsibility and legislation. We have very poor data in the IC and I sector on waste in general and on plastics specifically. We are very much in favour of the registry the federal government is going to create, because it will tighten that data up and make it available to all Canadians, including in industry, so we get a better handle on what our performance is.
The IC and I data is being collected at some provincial levels. I imagine this also had an effect on the data you're speaking about.