Environment committee  First of all, plastic is very difficult to sort, just because every time you sort, you need to use hand motions. Imagine this for the water bottle you have in front of you. You need to have 27 pieces to make a pound. To get a pound and then sell plastic as a tonne, say, at $400 a

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes, you're right. Our company is 100% privately owned, family owned. I always believed in innovation and developing the right technology to make it the most efficient and cost-effective way of doing the business. I believe the way we have been doing it has enabled us to susta

Environment committee  Yes. What I would like to do is piggy-back onto what Peter said. Definitely Europe is far in advance, but mind you, we are the ones that did the curbside program first. They came here to learn from us. But just because they have the economic means.... Why do I say they have the e

Environment committee  In terms of just collection, recyclables cost a bit more to collect because they're lightweight. With garbage, you have a lot more and just for collection it is cheaper. But when you integrate the whole cost structure—the cost of disposal, the cost to look after the landfill for

Environment committee  Could you please repeat that? I was missing the translation.

Environment committee  Certainly I agree with the polluter pay principle. This is first and foremost. Those who do harm or don't do the right thing should pay the consequences. EPR enshrines that principle because right now some jurisdictions pay 50% of the cost of handling the end-of-life product. S

Environment committee  Right now you will transition from the blue box to the recap program in your city. I do not have a dedicated, exact number. The City of Winnipeg gets close to between $80 to $100 a tonne from us for the recyclables in the curbside program. We help them to process and sell the rec

Environment committee  Yes, we also do the collection of garbage waste as well as yard waste for compost.

Environment committee  Today, yes. As I mentioned a minute ago, in the last 24 months we have invested $58 million in our business, and in the next 24 months we will probably do the same. There's a tremendous amount of waste, but the education process and getting everyone in business to want to do the

Environment committee  In response to the related question you asked Peter a minute ago regarding whether we should recycle at any cost, I have two answers. The first one is that by using technology, the cost to recycle would be less than the net cost of disposal. That's my stand. Just using Halton Reg

Environment committee  You really hit it home. As a matter of fact, we shipped to Pine Falls in the old days, until they closed their doors. As you mentioned, the readership or the use of a newspaper continues to go down thanks to the computer and all these emails. The important thing is that this tren

Environment committee  I'd like to. In terms of ways, I believe you have a whole host of regulations to deal with what you call toxic hazardous materials already. What I feel you do not have much of is regulations for general waste, our “benign waste” that needs to be disposed of. We feel that if all

Environment committee  I have to apologize, but no, I have not.

Environment committee  Okay. Thank you. Innovation is very important in our business because things change every day. In the old days, we hand-sorted. Now we mechanical-sort and optical-sort. That means efficiency. I would like to share with you information on our costs for the region of Halton. It's