Conservative environment critic Dan Albas responded to the ban by acknowledging the issue is a “real problem” that needs nuanced solutions, particularly during a public health pandemic that has seen anAlbas suggested the six-item ban jeopardizes “thousands” of jobs in Canada’s plastic manufacturing industry, adding switching to alternative products will bring additional costs to small businesses.
“We have made very clear that none of these bans on single-use plastics will affect any sort of medical supplies, which obviously are essential during this pandemic,” Trudeau said. “We will continue to have a thriving industrial response as we move forward on plastics.”File photo of a person adding items into a recycling blue box.
Details are unclear about the timeline for when the ban on single-use plastics will come into force. Wilkinson said the department needs to move through the necessary regulatory steps, and that it is his hope to get the ban finalized within the next 12 to 24 months. More than three million tonnes of plastics ended up as waste in 2016, according to a newly published government discussion paper on plastic pollution. Of that amount of plastic, onlySarah King, the organization’s Canadian lead on its oceans and plastics campaign, accused the federal government of “failing to put a meaningful dent in this crisis.”
they always do, it is never enough.