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US next please.

It's a necessary step in the right direction. Although I will say I miss getting plastic bags for my groceries because I would use them at home as garbage bags for my kitchen. Sounds cheap, and it is, but those weren't "single use" for me.

I always did the same. That's my only grievance about this move.

I use probably more plastic now because I have to buy stronger bags.

Canadian priorities, 2022. Let the black market commence!

You do. Garbage bags are a high gage plastic. When Australia banned single use plastic bags the overall use of plastic increased. This is why a proper life cycle analysis of bags should be the deciding factor for policy and not optics.

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I thought the same but for me personally, I’d use 1 of every 5 bags for garbage. The other four would be balled up and stuffed under the sink for “when I run out of bags”.

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Such a strawman.

It isn't I just wanted to make that horrible pun.

on one hand good on the other, i hate paper straws, I'd rather just use no straw

Can we maybe make some actual policy changes that will make a difference and place the onus on corporations for environmental change where it belongs instead of near meaningless optic-based policies that will mostly just make life mildly more annoying for average people?

This is not uplifting news to anyone who likes their straws to be useful, or thinks thin (i.e., will degrade quicker than the thick ones) plastic bags are more environmentally friendly -- which they are by virtually every metric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvzvM9tf5s0&t=87s

I so want to see a Trailer Park Boys episode where try to make money smuggling bendy strays.

This is a nice thing but go to any grocery store and realize how many single use plastics are involved.

I feel like you could comment this on every news story about "progressive" Canadian legislation in the past 8 years.

You realise that plastic bags, takeout containers, etc are fossil fuel products, right? Aside from plastic pollution being an obvious environmental issue visible to anyone walking down any side street anywhere, it's one more chip in the oil wall.

On top of that, the ban this year is for companies, not consumers. It is a domestic production and import ban. The consumer purchase ban is next year. So you're completely off on that, too.

Any policy that are changing what end user consumers can do are basically meaningless.

Why is the straw single use but not the lid?

Good riddance...

Utter nonsense. By that logic an ICE car sales ban would do nothing to reduce emissions. Never mind that the end-user purchase ban comes in next year, and you've completely skipped over the ban being introduced today, which is a domestic manufacturing and import ban. You know, one aimed at the companies producing the products? "Placing the onus on corporations?"

Because no one thought to shove a plastic lid up a turtle's nose yet. 😉

You can't want to have a cleaner, healthier environment and still get plastic straws and containers. There are and will be sacrifices we are all going to have to make.

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We have just done this in Australia, all it seems to have done is create a market for heavier, thicker plastic products that you can supposedly use over and over again, but in reality get tossed in the bin. We do have some straws made from cane sugar that are much better than paper ones though.

Completely missing their point. They're not saying we don't have to make sacrifices. They're saying that policy that targets end-users only addresses a very small part of the problem while at the same time making the most apparently visible change.

I get paper bags at the shops instead (also from Amazon) and i just put my garbage in those... The bags didn't need to be plastic.

If you insist, brb

And see here is the thing: that ban WOULD do almost nothing, because there are single container ships which produce more emissions than an entire country worth of cars.

[Citation needed]

Here's one for you: 75% of transport emissions come from road vehicles:

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport

I know it's illegal to admit you're wrong on the Internet, but maybe if someone points out you're wrong, just pulling shit out of your ass isn't the best way to take in that information.

Not that any of this changes the point that you skipped over this ban being aimed at corporations first and misrepresented it as something that exclusively targets consumers. That was the actual point being addressed.

The ban coming into effect today is for producers and importers, not end users.

People never understand how banning single-use plastics is worth it...they never seem to consider the emissions produced solely from producing these products.