Posted on 06/22/2022 8:56:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Canada is banning the manufacture and importation of single-use plastics by the end of the year, the government announced on Monday, in a major effort to combat plastic waste and address climate change.
The ban includes checkout bags, cutlery, straws and food-service ware made from or containing plastics that are hard to recycle, with a few exceptions for medical reasons.
It will come into effect in December 2022, and the sale of those plastic items will be prohibited as of December 2023, the government said.
Restaurants and grocery stores worry about a supply of alternative products as the government announces details of its ban on single-use plastics. in Toronto. June 20, 2022.
Restaurants and grocery stores worry about a supply of alternative products as the government announces details of its ban on single-use plastics. in Toronto. June 20, 2022.
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Canada is banning the manufacture and import of single-use plastics by the end of the year, the government announced on Monday, in a major effort to combat plastic waste and address climate change.
The ban will cover items like checkout bags, cutlery, straws, and food-service ware made from or containing plastics that are hard to recycle, with a few exceptions for medical reasons. It will come into effect in December 2022, and the sale of those items will be prohibited as of December 2023 to provide businesses in Canada enough time to transition and to deplete existing stocks, the government said.
Single-use plastics make up most of the plastic waste found on Canadian shorelines. Up to 15 billion plastic checkout bags are used each year and approximately 16 million straws are used every day, according to government data.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who vowed in 2019 to phase out plastics, said the ban will eliminate more than 1.3 million tons of plastic waste over the next decade — the equivalent of 1 million garbage bags of trash.
Restaurants and grocery stores worry about a supply of alternative products as the government announces details of its ban on single-use plastics. in Toronto. June 20, 2022. Restaurants and grocery stores worry about a supply of alternative products as the government announces details of its ban on single-use plastics. in Toronto. June 20, 2022. Steve Russell | Toronto Star | Getty Images “We promised to ban harmful single-use plastics, and we’re keeping that promise,” Trudeau wrote in a tweet on Monday.
Canada will also prohibit the export of those plastics by the end of 2025 to address international plastic pollution.
“By the end of the year, you won’t be able to manufacture or import these harmful plastics,” said Steven Guilbeault, the federal minister of environment and climate change. “After that, businesses will begin offering the sustainable solutions Canadians want, whether that’s paper straws or reusable bags.”
“With these new regulations, we’re taking a historic step forward in reducing plastic pollution, and keeping our communities and the places we love clean,” Guilbeault said.
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Canada’s effort comes as countries begin to impose bans to combat the problem of plastics, which are made from petroleum and can take hundreds of years to decompose.
The United States is the world’s largest contributor of plastic waste, according to a 2021 congressionally mandated report. This month, the Interior Department said it will phase out the sale of single-use plastic products in national parks and other public lands by 2032.
Sarah King, head of Greenpeace Canada’s oceans and plastics campaign, said in a statement that Canada’s ban is a critical step forward, but “we still aren’t even at the starting line.”
“The government needs to shift into high gear by expanding the ban list and cutting overall plastic production,” King said. “Relying on recycling for the other 95% is a denial of the scope of the crisis.”
Oh good.
That will save da Erf.
🙄🙄🙄
Always a sad day when an entire country falls to totalitarian Marxism.
No doubt this is the plan for the USA too. I wonder if Americans will allow it like sheep being led to the slaughter.
I wonder if this includes disposable Coof masks?
Stick a plastic fork in um, they’re done.
What about ten ton plastic wind turbine blades?
Where will they get the plastic to manufacture them?..............
Not bad enough that police states are growing, but they are flexing their power in increasingly irrational ways.
plastic is made from petroleum. therefore, canada should outlaw all petroleum products
don’t they want to save the earth
The craziness is astonishing.
We now have those very thick, strong plastic bags in WA and people use them to toss garbage. They are FAR FAR WORSE for the oceans and environment because they’ll NEVER disintegrate.
I buy my own plastic bags of old( thinner) thickness at Fred Meyer/Kroger. Also use paper bags, which are even better/. Live in an apartment complex where we are asked to toss things into bins in plastic bags.
Good! Single use plastics have become the scourge of the earth because how certain peoples and countries discard their plastic trash without considering how it destroys the environment. Search the “great Pacific garbage patch”, there is one of those in each of the 7 oceans. We can do better.
Yet more evidence that fairy tales like “climate change”:can have real world consequences.
Looks like Canadians will have to learn to use cardboard bowls and chopsticks.
Canada is the world’s biggest underachiever. This type of thing tells you why.
I’m unimpressed until he bans disposable diapers. Those add more to landfills than all the straws and plastic bags combined
Plastic grocery bags have wonderful 2nd uses: Kitty litter waste and dirty diapers, to name just two.
Single use plastic? Does this mean Turdeau must resign from his second term?
Do they ever consider the effects on people who don’t have cars? (especially the low-income).
I don’t have a car, and taking away plastic bags makes shopping (and living) that much harder.
First, it’s hard to carry enough (or sometimes any) bags around. Every ounce counts, and it’s harder on women to carry more. And, the more you have to carry bags, the less you can get at the store, necessitating more trips.
Second, cloth bags can get wet in the rain/snow, and become a dirty mess when you have to set them on the ground during/after snow/rain, such as when waiting for a bus.
Third, you don’t want to just throw things in one big bag, where they can easily move around. It helps to keep different groceries separate from each other, and bags act like packing material to keep the things from moving around. Some things also have a tendency to leak, or being cold to ruin other packaging.
Fourth, it amazes me that liberals would want the non-affluent reusing their bags. A lot of people are going to set them on the ground in the way into the house and maybe it’s just where the dog relieved itself. Certainly they’ll be set on the ground a lot. Yet people are going to bring them back into the grocery store?
Considering all else that is plastic that isn’t being banned, and the effects on low-income people without cars, and all the good uses for grocery bags, especially in terms of how they keep things sanitary, since we’re talking about the alternative being to take things from the home into the grocery store, it’s hard to understand liberals putting these bans forward.
Canada is banning single-use plastics, including grocery bags and straws
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Would that include condoms?
So, instead of plastic straws wrapped in paper, they’ll have paper straws wrapped in plastic?
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