Feds lay out plans to ban single-use plastics in Canada
They include straws, takeout containers, grocery bags, cutlery, stir sticks and plastic rings used to hold six cans or bottles together.City of Vancouver to ban plastic bags, charge for single-use cups – Dec 31, 2021
Following that assessment, which was finalized in October 2020, the government designated manufactured plastics as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.A coalition of plastics makers sued the government over the designation in May 2021, with the case expected to be heard sometime this year.
A research study published by Environment and Climate Change Canada in 2019 found 3.3 million tonnes of plastic was thrown out, almost half of it plastic packaging. Less than one-tenth of that was recycled. Most of the plastic ended up in landfills, where it will take hundreds of years to decompose. Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia already took their own action against plastic bags as have some cities including Regina and Montreal.
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