Environment committee  If you equate waste and carbon, which it really is in the grand scheme of things and you can do a carbon plan for Canada.... If you did a waste plan for Canada, you would have authority and jurisdiction to do what you wanted, including putting in place bans on materials going to

Environment committee  Minimum recycled content limits: if you want to bring a plastic into Canada, it has to be 25% recycled content. It's the same as what the EU just passed on March 29, right? I think that's 35%. You have to hit a target, and if you want to put plastic in our marketplace, it has t

Environment committee  It's in Chester, Nova Scotia, where they put in the new Renewlogy facility for plastic to keep the plastic out of the landfill site in Nova Scotia.

Environment committee  No, because you have a very, very robust infrastructure in Canada for mechanical recycling right now that you would just completely undermine, so it wouldn't be a good idea.

Environment committee  They work very well together. It's a very symbiotic relationship. You don't need to get rid of one to support the other.

Environment committee  Alberta doesn't have EPR yet.

Environment committee  Alberta and the east coast do not have EPR at the present time. They're talking about introducing it right now very strongly and having the stewards and the producers of the packaging be responsible for the cost of managing that material.

Environment committee  British Columbia is a very good example of a program where the municipalities are not paying for the program, and it's 100% funded by stewards.

Environment committee  Then it becomes a consumption tax. If they don't buy it, they don't pay for it.

Environment committee  There are a couple things. If you put policies in place just for plastics, you might run into something with trade, because now you're setting an uneven playing field for packaging within the country. What you're saying is, “Okay, plastics are bad, and I'm going to make sure yo

Environment committee  But you're going to have—

Environment committee  You'd have to regulate all packaging. That's what we started with. This is not just a plastic issue. It's a garbage issue. It's a waste issue.

Environment committee  There are a few things I think that the federal government could do. First of all, landfill is way too cheap in this country.

Environment committee  It has been for years. If you look anywhere—whether it's Germany, or anywhere else in the EU, the U.K.—you're looking at a hundred-dollar tax on landfilling that we don't have here. Whereas recycling's $200 to $250 a tonne, landfilling is $100 a tonne.

Environment committee  You can ship from Toronto down to Michigan for 51 bucks. Unless we start levelling that playing field.... You can control that, because that's the transportation of materials across a border. That's the transportation of waste. If you created for that the same idea that carbon's