In this week’s issue of our environment newsletter, we look at well-meaning but complicated efforts to create and certify plastic-free plastic and where things stand with the federal government’s two-billion-trees pledge.
In this week’s issue of our environment newsletter, we look at well-meaning but complicated efforts to create and certify plastic-free plastic and where things stand with the federal government’s two-billion-trees pledge.
OMG govs are useless.
-Ban white grainy Styrofoam (use fines to enforce)
-Regulate to force some plastic products to be degradable within months/weeks (e.g. garbage bags, dog poo bags, etc.)
-If the packaging is for food and needs to be plastic, regulate to be Type-1 plastic (the most recyclable type)
The hard part of governing is not handwaving solutions, it’s amassing the political power and social capital to implement them.
I mean, devils advocate that gets complicated when someone finds a needed exception (like bendy straws for disabled people), or you leave off a product by mistake.
I suspect something like that is what the Liberals will propose, though.