chloride wastes: 3,7, 6,4 and 11,9 g per m of dry film (98 % opacity) respectively, for natural rutile, synthetic rutile and slag ores.

sulphate wastes: 19 g per m of dry film (98 % opacity),

If in the future it is found necessary to promote the recycling of specific wastes, this is likely to be done by material rather than by product as has been the case until now. For example, a plastics recycling target would promote recycling of pipes from construction waste as well as plastic bottles, of agricultural films as well as car bumpers. Such targets would capture the waste fractions that have the highest recycling potential at lowest cost.

Making a digital copy of a book or a film does not necessarily guarantee its long-term survival and so, digitisation without a suitable strategy for preserving material can result in a large-scale waste of resources (human and financial).

What that says to us is that in the exercise of setting priorities the government has no priorities: every dollar is of equal priority; additional resources for the frontline of our military are equally important as grants and handouts to TV and film producers; additional resources for the provinces to improve the quality of and access to public health care are equally important as the billions of dollars in grants and handouts and corporate welfare provided by the Minister of Industry; and additional resources for our police, security and intelligence agencies are equally important as the hundreds of millions of d ...[+++]ollars of waste detailed in the recent auditor general's report.

I can think of no finer example of waste than the National Film Board.