Environment committee  Exactly, classification of labelling and standards is a priority to be considered for bringing this innovative material to actual usage.

Environment committee  Yes, there are multiple ways that the federal government can provide support. One is to help existing industries that are heavily using or making non-recyclable plastics to enter into this innovative field through the help of the federal government, as well as industry and techno

Environment committee  The main thing is that whenever bioplastics.... Different kinds are either are synthetically made or are from natural resources, like starch, lignin or celluloids. Basically, whatever product you make, there's some lack of performance, and that is the main thing: they don't perfo

Environment committee  Yes, it's not for everything, but in some areas it can really reduce plastic waste 100%.

Environment committee  It may be possible several decades down the road, but not right now. This is an area where Canada can lead. Indeed, this currently a completely open area, and particularly, as for making any kind of bioplastic, Canada produces none. All of the bioplastics are produced on large sc

Environment committee  There is a lot of controversy on what is compostable and what is biodegradable. For everyone's understanding, all compostable products are biodegradable but not all biodegradable products are compostable, meaning compostability is a phenomenon. As for the standard as far the en

Environment committee  Right now, because there are so many variations of plastic waste generated in different parts of the country and different parts of the world, it is very important how we label the material, because in the past we were sending everything to the Far East and they were absorbing al

Environment committee  Exactly. Thank you very much for that. Actually, you can use the traditional plastic, which is the post-consumer or post-industrial recycled plastic, like that headlamp or housing made up of polypropylene, with some waste feedstock—waste coffee cups, other industry waste like D

Environment committee  Unless we do the cultural shift, we can never go to innovation.

Environment committee  Thank you very much.

Environment committee  Exactly. I will say that we have to act together because, as part of a new circular economy, we have to rethink and redesign the products when we are working with new materials. These new materials or green materials or products are not going to be replacing something. This will

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to the entire committee for inviting me. My name is Manju Misra. I am a professor and tier 1 Canada research chair in sustainable biocomposites at the University of Guelph. I would like to say a special hello to MP Longfield, who has visited our lab,