Thanks. I'm always happy to talk about EPR. It is what keeps our members awake at night.
It is a policy tool whereby industry across the board assumes responsibility for funding and delivering recycling programs that we call “blue box” in most provinces. We work with provincial governments and producer responsibility organizations.
It really is a way for producers to have control of the system to make sure that we're designing systems and materials that go together and can be collected. We have greater insight when industry is leading EPR versus the old, historical municipal programs that really didn't allow for scale.
One of the things we need to be exploring with EPR is producers having access to their materials once they've been collected, because we have to be recouping for recycled content. We can't just be purchasing on an open market. The demand is significant. We're also very mindful of EPR being introduced in the United States. That will really impact the cost of recycled resins in Canada.
We fully support EPR. We think there are a lot of refinements, but we're really looking to work with provincial governments to better align some of the regulatory provisions in their EPR programs.