Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here today.
In 2010, in my community of Fort McMurray, we got away from single-use plastics. I found in our household that we didn't reduce plastic use because we used to use the grocery bags as garbage liners for the receptacles. So we didn't reduce plastic.
What I'm looking at is we have a waste management problem more than a plastic issue. We looked at China, Indonesia. There's technology out there to make it valuable. In the U.K., they're turning plastic waste into ecobricks.
We also have APT, alternative power technology, turning it into diesel fuel. We have to manage the resource. We don't call it waste; we call it resource with a value on it. I think we'll accomplish more because right now there's nothing that really replaces plastic.
My question is for Carol Hochu.
Are you aware of technologies to use plastic in ways other than municipal waste?