Which is funny because at most Canadian grocery stores they don't even offer or have paper bags. At least in Alberta.
I’d presume that’s the cause of this legislation.
Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021
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#12There was a similar thread for Germany here recently, and I remember someone saying that most companies will just start using multi-use plastics instead of single-use ones... without reusing them. Is that really likely or am I not foolish to hope that companies will eventually just research and use more biodegradable materials?
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#13A significant inquiry I have to this in general is what should we do for people for which single-use plastics are exceptionally necessary for their lives? For example, people with disabilities who cannot manage paper straws (due to their collapsing before a drink can be consumed) or metal straws (due to mental strain in keeping track of their cleaning)?
Have you ever used a paper straw? It takes ages for it to dissolve so for most people, event the disabled ones, it is not a problem.
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#14A significant inquiry I have to this in general is what should we do for people for which single-use plastics are exceptionally necessary for their lives? For example, people with disabilities who cannot manage paper straws (due to their collapsing before a drink can be consumed) or metal straws (due to mental strain in keeping track of their cleaning)?
Have you ever used a paper straw? It takes ages for it to dissolve so for most people, event the disabled ones, it is not a problem.
I personally don't have a problem but I know people who take a very long time to drink stuff.
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#15Can we add cigarette filters to the list? If I had a penny for every ...
Ban single use paper and cotton? If you collected each you might have a penny a piece if you could recycle into something people want like homemade face masks.
It's not cotton, it's Cellulose Acetate. Not very bio-degradable usually
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#16Interesting side-note: here in Vancouver BC, we were full steam ahead on eliminating plastics (e.g. styrofoam take-out containers, plastic drinking straws, shopping bags, etc.) but that was seemingly all instantly reversed once social distancing started.
I can understand the reversal of charging for shopping bags to encourage bringing reusable bags: reusable bags are potentially a disease vector.
But what's with the reintroduction of plastic straws over paper, and the reintroduction of styrofoam over paper boxes? A temporary cost-reduction measure, allowing the using-up of old stock these businesses had laying around?
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#17A significant inquiry I have to this in general is what should we do for people for which single-use plastics are exceptionally necessary for their lives? For example, people with disabilities who cannot manage paper straws (due to their collapsing before a drink can be consumed) or metal straws (due to mental strain in keeping track of their cleaning)?
Have you ever used a paper straw? It takes ages for it to dissolve so for most people, event the disabled ones, it is not a problem.
No, they suck. They get soggy after a few minutes. I’d rather not use a straw at all.
Which brings me to my main point. The “paper straws” movement isn’t actually anti-climate-change or pro-ecology, but just virtue signalling. If it was real, they wouldn’t be advocating paper straws, they’d be advocating no straws at all! Hint: you don’t need a straw (the vast majority of people anyways).
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#18Aren't there many legitimate uses of single-use plastics? Like medical products? What will Canada replace them with?
It's a law banning the use of single-use plastic for (a large number of) specific use-cases where it's unnecessary; not a law banning single-use plastics generally.
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#19Aren't there many legitimate uses of single-use plastics? Like medical products? What will Canada replace them with?
When this single-use plastics ban was in the news a year ago, there was a ton of exceptions to it.
It seems like in practice this will basically amount to a ban on plastic straws and grocery bags.
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#20Aren't there many legitimate uses of single-use plastics? Like medical products? What will Canada replace them with?
I suspect there will be exemptions. But it is really amazing how much there is left over from medical waste.