The Government of Canada is taking additional steps to reduce Canada’s plastic waste, support innovation and promote the use of affordable and safe alternatives.
Working with governments and businesses across Canada, the Government of Canada will:
•Ban harmful single-use plastics as early as 2021 (such as plastic bags, straws, cutlery, plates and stir sticks) where supported by scientific evidence and warranted, and take other steps to reduce pollution from plastic products and packaging
•Work with provinces and territories to introduce standards and targets for companies that manufacture plastic products or sell items with plastic packaging so they become responsible for their plastic waste.
Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, said his government will ban single-use plastics as early as 2021.
Trudeau said the government will research the question of which items it should ban and follow the model chosen by the European Union, which voted in March to ban plastic items for which market alternatives exist — such as single-use plastic cutlery and plates — and items made of oxo-degradable plastics, such as bags.
A full list of banned items has not yet been determined.
Published in the October 2019 Edition
