Canada is banning the manufacture and import of single-use plastic by the end of the year in order to combat plastic waste and address climate change.
The ban will cover items like checkout bags, cutlery, straws, and food-service ware made from or containing plastic that is hard to recycle, with a few exceptions. The government said that the ban on the sale of those items will take effect in December 2022.
Most of the plastic waste on the shorelines in Canada is single-use plastic.
Trudeau said the ban will eliminate more than 1.3 million tons of plastic waste over the next 10 years, the equivalent of one million garbage bags of trash.
Restaurants and grocery stores worry about a supply of alternative products as the government announces details of its ban on single-use plastics. in Toronto. June 20, 2022.Trudeau said on Monday that the government is keeping its promise to ban harmful single-use plastic.
Canada will ban the export of those plastic by the end of the century.
Steven Guilbeault is the minister of environment and climate change. Businesses will start to offer sustainable solutions after that.
Guilbeault said that the new regulations were taking a historic step forward in reducing plastic pollution.
As countries across the world begin to impose bans to combat the problem of plastic, Canada is trying to help.
According to a congressionally mandated report, the US is the world's largest contributor of plastic waste. The sale of single-use plastic products in national parks and other public lands will be phased out by 2032.
Sarah King said in a statement that Canada's ban is a critical step forward but "we still aren't even at the beginning."
King said that the government should expand the ban list and cut plastic production. It's a denial of the scope of the crisis to lie about recycling.
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