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Industry wants zero plastic packaging in Canada's landfills by 2040

6/4/2018

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Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: Jun 04, 2018
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Reduce, Reuse and Rethink is a CBC News series about recycling. We're exploring why our communities are at a turning point and exploring ways to recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group.
The Canadian plastics industry aims to make all plastic packaging recyclable or "recoverable" by 2030, and actually entirely diverted from landfills by 2040.
At the same time, environmental groups say they want to eliminate litter from single-use plastics like bags and cutlery by 2025.
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association and the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada announced Monday that they aim to make 100 per cent of plastic packaging recyclable or "recoverable" — divertable from landfills for use in products like chemical feedstocks, fuel and lubricants — by 2030. 
The same day, a group of 33 environmental and civil society groups recommended that Canada require all provinces to aim to recycle at least 85 per cent of single-use plastics by 2025 and have the rest "captured" — that is, disposed of properly by landfill or incineration and not released into the environment. 
That was one of a dozen national policies suggested in the "Towards a Zero Plastic Waste Canada" declaration released by Environmental Defence, the David Suzuki Foundation, the Canadian Environmental Law Association, the Broadbent Institute and dozens of others. READ MORE
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​EDITOR'S COMMENT: 
Let us keep this major environmental problem at the top of our concerns and to call on industry and politians to act! What do you think, 2040 or 2025? For your grandchildren speak out!

The plastics declaration proposes banning hard-to-recycle plastics. Environmental Defence's Ashley Wallis says an example is styrofoam.
(Jon Hernandez/CBC)

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Warren Postma
6/18/2018 12:38:12 pm

Something my wife and I are doing (we have young kids) is reducing our use of disposable plastic items, including plastic drinking straws, plastic bags, etc. It seems that in British Columbia, curbside recycling programs are being overwhelmed with the non-recyclable plastic bags. It's so easy to forget our reusable bags at home, and then we're back in the plastic bag game. It takes intentionality and planning to keep working for sustainable change. Thanks for this blog. I am happy to see a JPIC themed Franciscan blog for Canadian franciscans!

Warren

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