Environment committee  Very generally, I share the same question as to the status of the implementation. Again, I know it's to provide guidance to individual provinces that are then going to do their own thing or not. That was the last I remember hearing of it. I know that the industry-government task

Environment committee  I'll do that.

Environment committee  I think there are a few issues there. First of all, as a consumer, a residential homeowner, when I'm at home and I have something plastic, typically, I, along with most people, don't turn it over to look at the number. I'll just put it in the blue box. There's a lack of an unders

Environment committee  I am. I participated in the consultations as well.

Environment committee  I think we need to step back and have a full understanding of the different decisions that go into it. Obviously, we've talked a lot about marketing to consumers, so marketing goes into it. That's an important consideration. In terms of transportation, I would expect, especially

Environment committee  I guess there's a couple of opportunities to look at. To encourage recycling one would encourage a change in consumer behaviour, ensuring that they are doing their job at home and source-separating. If we're recycling 60% of the blue box materials, well, what's happening to the o

Environment committee  Again it's province by province. Off the top of my head, because I'm familiar with the Ontario blue box program, I know last year's diversion rates showed the amount of materials that were recovered and recycled into new materials was 64% of what was in the blue box. I think Ma

Environment committee  It is something that we've been looking at. Right now we're looking at the different members and good examples they've done to reduce packaging or make changes that result in environmental benefit, and trying to collate that to get some best practices together. We certainly will

Environment committee  The study found that consumers waste at home about 40% to 50% of what they buy. I think a lot of it is produce, but there is food waste that occurs. Right now we're studying food waste where it lies on our value chain, which is just the food manufacturing process. Where does that

Environment committee  Absolutely. For sure.

Environment committee  I'm not that familiar with all the different types of plastics. I do know there are hundreds if not thousands. We get involved when a member asks us a specific question of whether or not this type of plastic is recycled and recyclable in all the provinces. I'm familiar with some

Environment committee  Consumer products would be things like shampoo, soap, and toothpaste. Apple is electronics.

Environment committee  Again, there's another industry association for pharmaceutical products. We do have a few members who sell one or two. Again, the issues would be common across the board in terms of balancing, complying with the various packaging recycling programs in Canada, but also looking mor

Environment committee  When I said balanced I meant that in terms of our members who are looking to make changes to their packaging. Often they're going to be looking across the board and asking what materials are recyclable across all of Canada. They'll ask us that, and we're not able to provide a str

Environment committee  Forty per cent of—