Finance committee  If plastics were to disappear, it would be tremendously detrimental to the food sector. We commend the fact that people are interested in getting plastic out of the waste stream, the lakes, the rivers, the streams and the oceans, but the way to do this, we think, is through prog

Finance committee  The real-life examples would be that in some cases the price of food would go way up if we were to lose the ability to use plastics in agriculture, from store to material to production to hay bale wrap. All hay used in the dairy industry is now wrapped in plastic.

Finance committee  It's tremendous. The same practices as before COVID are being used today. We have these materials here to use, but the challenge we're facing right now is that recycling plants are being shut down and we're not going to be able to collect a lot of these materials, so it's very di

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to address the members of the House of Commons finance committee. My name is Barry Friesen and I'm the general manager of Cleanfarms. I've had the fortune of living in four provinces from coast to coast, from B.C. to Prince Edward Island t