Canada to ban single-use plastics by 2021
He also underscored their move to reach-out to private sectors , especially to big companies and businesses that are greatly responsible for the production and use of the single use plastic materials.
As a proof of how serious the government is with this advocact Trudeau is planning to hold “the Coca-Colas and the Unilevers of the world” responsible for the entire life cycle of all the products they produce than just passing the challenge to much smaller businesses.
This move was ignited by the news about the Philippines sending back some 1,500 tons of rotting garbage to Canada which, according to the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, was illegally shipped by Canadian government to Manila.
This brought in picture the deplorable state of plastic recycling in the country , which, according to the official statement, is less than 11 percent of plastic used in Canada. With the rate of garbage wastage in the country that reaches more than 34 million plastic bags, this is enough to cause real worry for the kind of environment the next generation of Canadians will live in.

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