Environment committee  The amount of plastic materials we're generating and have to landfill—irrespective of whether it's domestic or foreign—is a market failure. It's an economic failure. In order for us to apply a value or increase the value of these plastic discards, we need to come at it from a var

Environment committee  I think extended producer responsibility certainly is the policy of choice at the provincial level to try to tackle plastic waste. There's no question about that. The issue is that the targets are systemically low in their regulations. I'll cite Ontario as an example. After thr

Environment committee  There are really three major items. First, there is an expansion of extended producer responsibility laws to transfer the legal, financial and operational responsibility back to the actors in the chain that have the most influence, and those would be the manufacturers, brand hol

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. I think there are two angles to answering that. I think the first is that the definition of final disposition is clear here. It is imperative to pick up on the notion that even though we are shipping loads that are defined as recycling, prior consent

Environment committee  I think we'd be looking to landfill.

Environment committee  I can't answer the question because we don't have good data to even know what 90% export actually means.

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. I'll build on Mr. Puckett's commentary around good and bad recycling. First of all, I think the spirit here is to get more transparency on what it is we are collecting and sending to other shores, and certainly that is similar to what we should be d

Environment committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for this opportunity to participate in today's session. Bill C-204 underscores an important consequence of waste, which is the growing problem of plastic waste in particular. As has been noted, it is estimated that more than 90% of Canada's plastic