Even though they are a thing of the past the federal government’s push to phase out single-use Plastics is caught in the Wind on Thursday the federal court called the policy unreasonable and unconstitutional in May 2021 Ottawa put forward a cabinet order listing Plastics on the list of toxic substances under
The Environmental Protection act this week’s ruling determined that there is no reasonable apprehension to list all Plastic Products as harmful the group that put forward the challenge said it hopes government and Industry can work together to reduce plastic waste meantime Canada’s environment Minister says the government is reviewing the
Decision and considering an appeal in a statement on social media Steven gibo wrote We strongly believe in taking action to tackle this crisis and keep millions of garbage bags worth of trash off our beaches out of our Waters and away from nature that’s what we will keep fighting for environmental lawyers
Believe there is enough to push for the appeal given the word toxic is defined in this case and it includes things that enter the environment in a quantity or concentration or under conditions that can have an immediate or long-term effect harmful effect Canadians have shifted to using reusable or compostable
Items at grocery stores and restaurants have a lovely day in the face of this decision three of the five large grocery chains in Canada tell global news they have no intention of turning back to plastic bags the federal government says Canadians recycle 3 million tons of plastic waste every year
But only 9 % of it can be recycled with the rest ending up in landfills critics are calling for more Investments when it comes to waste management we have the best engineers in the world recycling the plastic means those molecules can be used over and over again without causing
Waste and while protecting the health of our people and the safety of our environment one expert says this ruling should give the government pause to consider the entirety of a product’s carbon footprint before writing it off if the totality of the is better even though it can’t be
Recycled is that still the more sustainable outcome and so I think we need to take a step back and look at our broader sustainability objectives as opposed to fixating on can this be recycled or is it going to landfill Kyle Benning Global News
In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court of Canada declared the government’s ban on single-use plastics to be unconstitutional, throwing the cabinet order into question.
However, despite the ruling, it seems unlikely that Canadians will revert to single-use items as they have already shifted towards using reusable or compostable products. Three out of the five large grocery chains in Canada tell Global News they have no intention of turning back to plastic bags.
The federal government says Canadians recycle three million tonnes of plastic waste every year, but only nine per cent of it can be recycled with the rest ending up in the landfill.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said in a statement that the federal government is “strongly considering an appeal” of the decision.
Global’s Kyle Benning reports.
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Stephen Guilbeault is mad now ????????? and maybe Trudeau to ??????
Go Pierre go
Of course they talk to an "ecojustice" lawyer. Not biased at all.
What about smartphones? Electric vehicles? Incredibly damaging to the environment, hypocrites!
So let's get this right. Justin Trudeau's "approved" marijuana can be sold in 4.3 gram plastic containers with 3.5 grams of his "legal" weed in it, yet plastic grocery bags are banned?
No wonder people are going hungry.
they say this is what Canadians want……not sure when we voted for it but i missed it
paper straws never made scense
We ignore the courts when we don't like the ruling, says Global News. Get lost.
I just throw the reusable grocery bags in the damn garbage!
The grocery stores are making alot of money selling people bags now. The are not going to reverse that.
Techically 🙂 the reusable bags are real nice and should be free it has stores brand name on it to advertise and if your walking with it down the block or like showing it of other places to your neighbors or like moments the store you use should give you a shopping discount as well, since you become advertisement of store brand and if your really styling after you shop then should get even more discount everytime you shop at that store. What do you think?
1. Take paper straw binded with chemicals and put it in a plastic wrapper. Brilliant.
Please give me back my plastic straw, the paper ones are such a fail.
So not using single plastic is unconstitutional,But the government can steal your property and thats constitutional..christ this country sucks sometimes..
Watch. “”The. Ocean Clean Up. “. and get educated
Incinerate and produce hydroelectric
Reusable getpretty disgusting fast
So the liberal government serves the environment instead of Canadians.
What about the billions of COVID-19 Masks and needles,Vials…
Crazy Rwanda was able to ban single use plastics but we can’t do that here.
Plastic checkout bags were anything but "single use". Everyone I know reused them, and they eventually get reused one last time as garbage bags. With them banned, you'd have to buy garbage bags which are then truly single use!
If you want to go after single-use plastics, go after all the custom-shaped packaging that I really find hard to reuse for anything else.