Environment committee  I think Mr. Olivier has touched on it, but I agree with him. We currently have bioplastics in some PET and in some polyethylene. Once you make the ethylene and then turn it into polyethylene, it doesn't matter if the ethylene is bio-based or if it's oil-based ethylene. Histor

Environment committee  I have been working through many organizations—North American—like the Association of Plastic Recyclers. The most important thing is the package itself. The package has to be designed right. If the package is not designed right, then you can build infrastructure to collect it and

Environment committee  It's going to double-check the design criteria also in two ways. First, if you don't make it right, it's going to double-check you there. Also, it's going to prevent you from meeting your goal. In one sense, you could stand up and say, “I want to be part of the circular, and I w

Environment committee  Yes. I don't have the complete...but there are jobs in making virgin resin in Canada. There are multiple jobs. It's a big industry. There are jobs in moulding product across Canada, everywhere, in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta. People are making products: food packag

Environment committee  I know it's very big, but I don't have.... I know people who have it and I can get it for you. The plastics industry should have something of that sort, so I can get that information for you. I don't have it—

Environment committee  Yes, I believe it is. Economics works, just like Maja mentioned. If you have a choice, you just have to price it correctly. What's the environmental impact? Then you have to price it properly. We know incentives work. They work everywhere. They work in our personal lives. In my l

Environment committee  I firmly believe that it does both. There's an environmental benefit, and it has a social and economic benefit too, for the community. The environmental benefit has been studied in terms of reducing 1.5 tonnes of carbon for each tonne of recycled product you're making, versus in

Environment committee  Could you please be more specific?

Environment committee  I fundamentally believe that plastics are not a toxic and should not be under the toxic label. Putting them under toxic will cause harm to Canadian industry. Also, it misleads the public, as you have said. People are going to understand toxic as something that's going to kill the

Environment committee  There have been many studies that show that each tonne of recycled resin reduces the carbon footprint by 1.5 tonnes. There are some that have been done by the federal government. Those studies exist today. In regard to the resin, there's one thing I would like to mention. We rec

Environment committee  It's a great approach. We know that market demand is going to create and everything else is going to follow. I believe the post-consumer content is going to be good, but equally important, it's going to go back to the design of the package. The package has to be designed so that

Environment committee  Customers are driving these changes. Today, NOVA Chemicals customers want products that contain a percentage of post-consumer recycled material. NOVA Chemicals wants to partner with companies that can help it thrive. Things have clearly changed. Before, you had to choose betwee

Environment committee  We do that by designing the package itself, such as, for example, a clear bottle that has a label and printing that is soluble and caustic and that dissolves. Properly designing the package would allow you right from the get-go to recirculate and recycle it and turn it into the s

Environment committee  I think it's excellent. We need a sustainable market. As Maja mentioned, we have to maintain our service to our community, and we cannot compete with commodities.

Environment committee  This is definitely a good approach. Accountability is a good approach. When you want to get serious about anything you do, you start measuring it.