Here is everything you need to know about the ban on single-use plastics. What are single-use plastics and why are they being banned? Single-use plastics are, as their name implies, plastic products that are designed to be used once and then disposed of. (And yes, if you want to ...
The ban, which follows some local bans on single-use plastics, is happening under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, which required a scientific assessment of the problem first. That assessment report, released in January, said that in 2016, 29,000 tonnes of plastic garba...
The draft regulations reflect input from thousands of Canadians who participated in consultations held by the federal government beginning in 2019. Many of these participants were Canadians who voiced support for banning single-use plastics. According to a statement from the government of Canada, the ...
“If you shop at a major local grocery store, you will not be able to avoid single-use plastic packaging,” the report stated. The report recommended that governments step up their attempts to erase single use plastic by banning plastic packaging that is not generally recycled, or is not p...
Other policies to reduce single-use plastics include banning plastic drinking straws, deposit and return schemes for plastic bottles and extended producer responsibility (EPR), which makes producers responsible for the entire product life-cycle. Following China's ban on importing recycled film plastic,...
With more countries banning the use of many single-use plastics – including Canada, which has committed to banning several single-use plastic items such as grocery bags, straws and cutlery by the end of 2021 – Fortin says the forest industry as a whole is in a position to be part of ...
Another problem is smoking, but this problem has been going down in recent years. Government programs banning the advertising of cigarettes, banning smoking in public places, bar and restaurants has resulted in dramatically lower smoking rates and decreasing numbers of lung, breast and lymph node ca...
In fact, until the late 1960's most straws were made of paper. But advances in plastics eventually killed them by the mid-1970's. It is only recently because or ordinances banning plastic that they have started to make a comeback. Mushroom, Mar 29, 2019 #17 JakeStarkey likes this...
By banning exports unless certain conditions are met, California is, in effect, extending its jurisdiction in ways that it comes to regulate production in those countries where the use of rubbish materials as inputs into manufacturing for both domestic consumption and export is the norm (see Gregs...
Times Staff Writer A moratorium banning the installation of television satellite dishes in La Canada Flintridge has been extended for 10 months while the city fashions an ordinance to restrict proliferation of the large, bowl-shaped antennas in highly visible spots. ...