A single-use plastic ban in Canada? Let’s hold the feds to it!

By Sarah King

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In September 2018, in the occasion of World Clean-up Day, Greenpeace alongside community allies, volunteers, and Greenpeace local groups coordinated clean-up activities and plastic polluter brand audit in five Canadian cities. The audit sought to identify the major corporate contributors to plastic waste polluting shorelines, green spaces, and communities.

Last week we were met with surprising, but welcome, news that the Trudeau government plans to ban certain single-use plastics as early as 2021. This is the news that we’ve been waiting for since we started our campaign to stop plastic pollution at the source. It’s what over 27,000 Canadians asked for through Greenpeace’s submission tool for the national zero waste strategy public consultation. And it’s what is necessary to tackle this plastic nightmare. But it’s the details that matter. Since the Trudeau government hasn’t provided much detail, we’ll fill in the blanks.

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