Environment committee  Yes. Thank you for the invitation. PET is a very high value material with a very high recycle rate. My understanding is that it would be under the Basel amendments and would not be subject to the controls because it's a single pellet, is very well sorted together and has value.

Environment committee  I'm sorry, Ms. Pauzé, but would you mind repeating the question? There was some interference, and I didn't understand the whole question.

Environment committee  It is being finalized. Canada initiated the study, which will be shared with our provincial and territorial colleagues. The study is looking at financial needs related to infrastructure within the context of an extended producer responsibility program.

Environment committee  There are pilot projects. There are also some fairly robust programs in some parts of the country. For example, Quebec is drafting a bill, and the B.C. model is mentioned frequently.

Environment committee  Thank you. We have partnerships with some provinces. For example, we have pilot projects in Ontario on the compostability of [Inaudible—Editor]. In Quebec, there is the Circular Plastics Taskforce, the work done with Danone and Éco Entreprises Québec. We are trying to find the

Environment committee  Thank you. There are a few points to say on this one. The transboundary movement of plastic waste is a responsibility of the federal government. The CEPA allows for issuing permits to municipalities, but to provinces and territories first, to manage the recycling and the treatme

Environment committee  CEPA does not define plastic or plastic waste. The regulations that we have in place would consider waste as hazardous or non-hazardous, based on the fact that.... For example, if it's hazardous under Canadian regulations, or if the receiving country prohibits or just doesn't wan

Environment committee  If it's okay, Mr. Chair, I will start, and I think you'll benefit from the expertise of both Nathalie Perron and Laura Farquharson. I want to clarify that the plastic amendments of the Basel Convention were accepted by Canada in December, so they're now in effect. On the questi

Environment committee  The work to track the progress towards zero plastic waste, including the greenhouse gas emissions and the jobs, is under way. We're working in particular with Statistics Canada. Currently we don't have these numbers tracked; we're developing the framework and looking at the data

Environment committee  Correct. It's through the materials flow studies that are published every second year, which you probably contributed to, as you pointed out.

Environment committee  Thank you, Ms. Ryan. The work on recycled content and other standards is being implemented by the department, working closely with the provinces and territories. On recycled content in particular, in the discussion paper that was published in October there were potential avenu

Environment committee  Yes, correct. In the context of the CCME work, yes. For example, we had participants from PT—

Environment committee  The answer is no. The 9% comes from the Deloitte study, which does not include any figures for exported plastic waste.

Industry committee  Plastic waste exports have officially been controlled since January 1, 2021. The vast majority is going to the United States. I don't have the tonnage, but most export waste goes to the U.S.

Industry committee  It could be both. We don't have a clear division of stats on those two. What I can say, though, is that you need an export permit to export outside of Canada. If the waste transits through the U.S., you still need the permit.