Canada Plastic Ban

• Canadian restaurants swapping out single-use plastics with new takeout ware

  Some restaurants have already gone through months of trial and error in an effort to find the best alternatives to single-use plastic items.

  Canada

  Jan 2, 2023
  
• Will banning single-use plastics impact our health? Here’s what we know

  There is growing evidence that the use of plastic products leads to skin contact, ingestion and inhalation of large amounts of microplastics and toxic substances.

  Health

  Jun 22, 2022
  
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• Canada’s single-use plastics ban a ‘first step’ in waste reduction. What’s next?

  Canada announced a series of deadlines on Monday that would see an end to the circulation of several single-use plastic products in the country. What happens now?

  Canada

  Jun 20, 2022
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• Canada to ban certain single-use plastic imports, manufacturing by year’s end

  The move will also affect single-use plastic straws, stir sticks, cutlery and six-pack rings used to hold cans and bottles together.

  Environment

  Jun 20, 2022
• Should Canada’s plan to ban single-use plastic extend to grocery stores?

  Should grocery stores be targeted by Justin Trudeau's single-use plastic ban?

  Canada

  Jun 10, 2019
• Canada reducing (but not banning) use of plastics at G7 in Quebec

  The federal government is reducing, but not banning, the use of single-use plastics at the G7 summit this week. But Greenpeace wants Ottawa to go further.

  Environment

  Jun 7, 2018
• Canadians should recycle 85% of plastics by 2025, environmental groups say 

  Dozens of environmental groups say if Canada wants to be a leader in getting the rest of the world to kick its plastics habit, it has to start by setting the bar for recycling plastics far higher at home.

  Canada

  Jun 4, 2018