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While I fully support this ban, even if it's not that much more than a gesture in the larger issue of carbon and the environment, I think it's largely related t
by davidy123 7y ago
While I fully support this ban, even if it's not that much more than a gesture in the larger issue of carbon and the environment, I think it's largely related to the very public and embarrassing row over badly sorted garbage sent to the Philippines. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canadian-garbage-from-philippines-departure-1.5156007 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canadian-garbage-from-phi...
That incident is however an indication of how difficult it is to properly dispose of single-use plastics, and this will help solve that problem.
- pesfandiar 7y agoThere's a federal election in Canada in October, and based on polls, the governing party is losing some votes to the Green Party. This could be more directly explained by that, but I agree that it's certainly a positive side effect regardless.
- fooblitzky 7y agoDon't forget it's the same government investing billions of dollars in petrochemical plants[1] to manufacture.... more plastic. [1] https://globalnews.ca/news/4857778/canadian-petrochemical-growth-plastics https://globalnews.ca/news/4857778/canadian-petrochemical-gr...