Canada to ban sale of single use plastics by end of 2023
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The Canadian government is banning companies from importing or making plastic bags and Styrofoam takeout containers by the end of this year, their sale by the end of next year and their export by the end of 2025. The ban will affect plastic straws, bags, cutlery, stir sticks and six-pack rings that hold cans and bottles. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first promised in June 2019 that his government would phase out the production and use of hard-to-recycle plastic items.
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Canada lays out rules banning single-use plastics
Ban on manufacture and import of six types of items will begin in December 2022, and ban on sale a year later
Final countdown to banning some single-use plastics in Canada begins
Canadians will need to find alternatives for plastic straws and grocery bags by the end of the year as the federal government puts the final motions in place to ban some single-use plastics. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and a number of other ministers and Liberal MPs will lay out the plastics ban in a series of events across the country today.
Canada to ban making, importing many single-use plastics from Dec
The government of Canada on Monday published final regulations to prohibit "harmful" single-use plastics, with a ban on manufacturing and importing most of these items to come into effect in December.
The final countdown to banning some single-use plastics in Canada begins today
Canadians will need to find alternatives for plastic straws and grocery bags by the end of the year as the federal government puts the final motions in place to ban some single-use plastics.
QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government is banning companies from importing or making plastic bags and Styrofoam takeout containers by the end of this year, their sale by the