Agriculture committee  Carbon is an interesting topic for us. From the get-go, we said that we needed to design a solution that doesn't need an incentive or a subsidy from the government, whether a carbon subsidy or other subsidy. Of course, when you're developing technologies, finding investment that's prepared to take the risk on the development of the technologies is a challenge, and this is a role that government can play.

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely. Soils are degrading across the world in terms of organic content. There's a big push for circular, regenerative and sustainable agriculture. At the same time, that organic material that's coming out of the soil—like food waste and other products like that—ends up in a landfill, where we lock it into a plastic-lined, inefficient bioreactor that lets 50% of that methane escape into the atmosphere.

Agriculture committee  In fact, we've been in discussions with a number of agricultural groups that would represent the collection of agricultural plastic that's used for growing agricultural products. We're working to find a way to bring that into either stand-alone conversion facilities or our larger systems where we take regular garbage.

Agriculture committee  Thanks so much for the question. Plastic waste is obviously an issue that goes across all sectors, including agriculture. We have a solution that can help with that. We can take the least recyclable plastic that goes into a landfill.... Even with the plastic you put on the curb for recycling, typically 50% of it doesn't get recycled; it ends up in the landfill.

Agriculture committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Peter Vinall, and I'm the president of Sustane Technologies. This morning I'm joined by Kevin Cameron, our senior vice-president of business development. Thanks for giving us the opportunity to speak to you today about how Sustane is uniquely positioned to assist the horticulture sector in meeting the government's climate change goals through the reduction of plastics waste and the use of society's organics as a negative carbon fertilizer.