Industry committee  Just buying them from abroad doesn't solve the problem.

Industry committee  Absolutely. Canada has the potential with its natural resources, with the recyclability in Canada, with the technology here, to establish itself as a global leader, and I mean a global leader, in turning waste into resources, into recovering and reprocessing those resources and p

Industry committee  I got a red flag from the chair. I don't know if I can answer.

Industry committee  It has the lowest environmental footprint, lowest NG content, lowest energy use to recycle of any competitive material.

Industry committee  That's a big subject. I brought a few samples in, which are real projects we're involved in. In fact, 73% of every medical device in the world uses plastic, and that number has been growing by about 2.5% per year. It's unbreakable, hygienic and mouldable. That's big. I could b

Industry committee  Nothing important.... It's also Canadian money. I don't know what you think of that.

Industry committee  Yes, it's in everything: the chair I'm sitting on, the table I'm working at, the carpet that's on the floor, the manufacture of the wallpaper, what goes into the wallpaper and that thermostat on the wall. I could go on.

Industry committee  It would not be possible today.

Industry committee  It will drive two important streams of investment out of Canada. First of all, 370,000 people in Canada rely on it. Are you going to invest in Canada versus a market that is responsive, supportive and encouraging investment south of the border? Absolutely you're going to move so

Industry committee  Certainly. I'll do it efficiently to try not to get the red flag or yellow flag here.

Industry committee  The first thing is the broader use of the word “plastics”. Everybody defines it differently. We talk about microplastics. A lot of the focus is on microplastics. The number one source of microplastics in the oceans is tire residue. The next top two sources of microplastics in t

Industry committee  First of all, almost all plastics are recyclable indefinitely. They're hydrocarbons. They're molecules. If you look at PET, the one that's familiar, in this container for example, it's made out of four primary molecules. They are the same four molecules that make up 96%, by weigh

Industry committee  Sorry.

Industry committee  It's not really that useful for us. When you think about Husky Energy, when you think about the small and medium-sized enterprises across Canada involved in the plastics industry, the toxic designation and the failure to focus on recovery of the materials have more to do with the

Industry committee  Absolutely, we are. I mean, 97% of everything we produce has been exported, so our customers are all around the world.