• Set a national plastic waste reduction and recycling target for Canada.
• Create a national registry that is capable of tracking plastic production, sales, and end of life management. 
• Ensure that information and data collected through the registry is shared publicly to all interested and affected stakeholders. 
• Ban packaging and products from sale as they are set out in the discussion paper; designed for single use; difficult to manage through recycling or composting applications; and where market alternatives exist to support avoidance, reuse, or improved recycling or composting options.
• Expand the list of banned single-use plastics where there is evidence that they are found in the environment, are often not recycled, and have readily available alternatives.
• Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act mandate the use of post-consumer recycled (PCR) content for plastics in the manufacturing of new products. 
• Set a 50 per cent minimum baseline by 2030 and use an economy-wide approach for its implementation. 
• Develop a national strategy to guide PCR implementation and work with a cross-section of stakeholders and jurisdictions to identify priority sectors and/or products; develop use standards and specifications; and identify verification processes and protocols. 
• Create a national reporting repository to track adoption and impacts, and make all related information accessible for public consumption.
• Government of Canada should leverage its leadership position and buying power to advance all policy objectives outlined in the discussion paper starting in 2021.
• Increase PCR content, ban single-use items, and ensure responsible end of life management by implementing circular procurement practices.  
• Use convening powers to coalesce governments at all levels and develop a circular procurement strategy that targets the elimination of plastic waste. 
• Create a set of national standards to support effective provincial and territorial circular procurement policies and practices.
• Create national standards, based on best practices, that include standardization for regulatory scope; regulatory terms and definitions; performance targets; and reporting protocols that guides implementation and expands EPR policies across Canada.  
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• Utilize the national registry for plastics production and end of life management to track all advancements in EPR regulations applied to products and packaging that contain plastic. 
• Dismiss outright any form of incineration, thermal treatment, or energy-from-waste as an acceptable approach to mitigate plastic waste.

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