Loading ...CANADA – Feds admit their plastics ban will actually increase waste
Here’s something I’ll bet you didn’t know about the federal government’s ban on single-use plastics.
In the Environment department’s own “regulatory impact assessment,” federal researchers claimed, “the proposed regulations would prevent approximately 1.6 million tonnes of plastics from entering the waste stream over the analytical period.” That’s 2023 to 2032. But the ban “would also add about 3.2 million tonnes of other materials to the waste stream from the use of substitutes.”