single-use plastics ban

• Montreal to ban single-use plastics by 2023

  The use of certain kinds of plastics in Montreal is coming to an end.

  Environment

  Aug 18, 2021
  
• Trudeau’s single-use plastics ban is ill-timed and ill-conceived

  Does it make any sense to prioritize something like a single-use plastics ban in the midst of a global pandemic? Rob Breakenridge discusses.

  Commentary

  Oct 10, 2020
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• Plastics industry criticizes Ottawa’s ‘toxic’ label for some products in planned ban

  Industry leaders said plastic products don't belong anywhere near a list of harmful products that includes mercury, asbestos and lead.

  Environment

  Oct 8, 2020
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• Ottawa pushing ahead with plan to ban single-use plastics by end of 2021

  Canadians are turning in large numbers to plastics amid the coronavirus pandemic.

  Canada

  Oct 7, 2020
• Edmonton social enterprise Earth Group unveils new aluminum bottled water product

  "It's 100 per cent aluminum, 100 per cent recyclable, it takes 95 per cent less energy to recycle than a plastic bottle," Earth Water co-founder Matt Moreau said.

  Canada

  Sep 13, 2019
• Kingston looks to remove single-use plastics from some city-owned facilities

  Plastic straws, cups and forks, by the middle of next year, they will be removed from some Kingston owned facilities.

  News

  Sep 10, 2019
• 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
• Federal government to look into single-use plastics ban: source

  A process that will look into a ban will be announced Monday, and the ban could come into effect as early as 2021, according to an anonymous source.

  Canada

  Jun 9, 2019