{"id":28175,"date":"2019-06-11T10:46:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T02:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=28175"},"modified":"2019-06-11T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T02:46:38","slug":"canada-to-ban-single-use-plastics-from-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=28175","title":{"rendered":"Canada to ban single-use plastics from 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MONTREAL, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada will ban single-use plastics from 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced, declaring it a \u201cglobal challenge\u201d to phase out the plastic bags, straws and cutlery clogging the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am very pleased to announce that as early as 2021, Canada will ban harmful, single-use plastics from coast to coast,\u201d Trudeau said, arguing Canada has a unique chance to lead the fight against plastic pollution as the country with the world\u2019s longest coastlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than 10 percent of plastics used in Canada are currently recycled, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year, a million birds and more than 100,000 marine mammals worldwide are injured or killed by becoming entangled in plastic or ingesting it through the food chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Single-use items represent about 70 percent of the plastic waste littering the marine environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Straws, plastic bags, cutlery, plates and stir sticks would be among the items banned, a government statement said. The list will be refined based on further scientific research between now and 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The environmental group Greenpeace called the government\u2019s announcement \u201cthe first step\u201d but said ultimately Canada needs to move towards phasing out a wider array of \u201call non-essential plastics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It called for quick action \u201cso this announcement isn\u2019t a single-use election promise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The environment is shaping up as an issue in Canadian legislative elections set for October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trudeau said producers of other plastics \u2014 such as bottles or food packaging \u2014 will be held responsible for \u201cthe entire life-cycle\u201d of their products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both plastic manufacturers and the companies using their products, as in packing materials, will have to provide recycling plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several Canadian cities already ban the use of plastic bags and some provinces have banned other products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Trudeau said a \u201cnational solution\u201d was needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery year, Canadians throw away over three million tons of plastic waste,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThis represents up to $8 billion per year in lost value and wastes valuable resources and energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recycling would not only cut down on pollution but would help produce 42,000 jobs in the recycling and recovery businesses, the prime minister said. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada will ban single-use plastics from 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced, declaring it a \u201cglobal challenge\u201d to phase out the plastic bags, straws and cutlery clogging the world\u2019s oceans. \u201cI am very pleased to announce that as early as 2021, Canada will ban harmful, single-use plastics from coast to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}