Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Some presenters spoke about how critical public education will be to the success of a beverage container recycling program, and underlined the need to have funds available for this purpose. While voluntary programs are already operating successfully in some communities such as Inuvik, recycling will be new for others. Mayor Evelyn Storr from Aklavik provided the example of people taking cans of pop out to their camps. "What they want to bring back is their muktuk and their fish and they do not want to bring back empty cans...We are asking people to try to change their lifestyle when we ask them to separate their garbage. Before, garbage was garbage."
The committee sees this as one of the reasons why it will be so important to have representation from small communities on the advisory committee, so that programs and education strategies can be designed to be as relevant to them as to the larger centres where recycling is already more common.