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TELL THE GOVERNMENT WE NEED A STRONGER PLASTIC BAN

URGENT: We only have until March 4, 2022, to have our say on Canada’s proposed single-use plastic ban. Add your voice, before it’s too late.

The draft regulations for the plastic ban do not go far enough, fast enough, and contain too many loopholes. There’s no time to waste when it comes to eliminating plastic waste.

At the end of 2021, the Canadian government released its draft regulations for the long-anticipated single-use plastic ban. The proposed ban is a huge opportunity for Canada and the world to fix this massive environmental disaster that affects us all. But it has some glaring omissions.

As currently proposed, the ban has loopholes that allow industry to create more harmful single-use plastics, allow for the manufacture and export of the plastic items on the ban list - and it will take another two years for the ban to come into effect. By waiting until 2024, as many as 31 billion plastic bags, 11.6 billion straws and 1.6 billion take-out containers could be thrown away or end up in our environment.

The government has asked for public comment on the draft regulations from now until March 4, 2022. Let’s fix this now, while there’s still time.

JOIN US AND TELL PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU AND MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE STEVEN GUILBEAULT TO STRENGTHEN THE PLASTIC BAN.

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Trudeau

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Guilbeault

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister Guilbeault,

I support the federal government’s commitment to ban harmful single-use plastics. I am concerned about Canada’s plastic consumption and the plastic disaster facing our oceans.

The proposed ban is a huge opportunity for Canada to reduce its contributions to this massive environmental disaster that affects all of us and to demonstrate global leadership. However, the ban, as proposed, has some glaring omissions.

The ban must be stronger if Canada is serious about its overall reduction of plastic. That means you must:

•	Expand the ban list to include other harmful plastic items commonly found polluting our shorelines, like polypropylene take-out cups and lids and plastic films (flexible plastic packaging);
•	Close any loopholes that may allow for non-listed plastics, such as flexible packaging and durable plastics, to replace any of the single-use items named;
•	Clearly define plastic cutlery, plastics bags and plastic rings so that industry can’t just alter single-use plastic products to avoid the ban and continue business as usual;
•	Remove the clause that would allow Canada continue production and export of harmful, single-use plastics; and
•	Enact the proposed ban by the end of 2022. This federal government originally promised a ban on harmful single-use plastics by 2022 – not 2024 – there is no more time to waste.

There is broad public support for strong federal leadership to address Canada’s plastic pollution crisis. The majority of Canadians support the ban, and nearly two thirds think it needs to go further. In the last two years, take-out has increased by 300 per cent. We cannot wait another two years for the plastic disaster to grow that much more. If we wait until 2024, that means two more years of single-use plastics building up in landfills and choking our oceans – an estimated 315,000 tonnes of plastic waste just from these items alone – could end up in our environment over those two years.

I am calling on you to ensure the single-use plastic ban gets Canada on track to a zero plastic waste future and follows scientific advice to eliminate the most harmful and unnecessary single-use plastics. As Canada boasts the world’s longest coastline and touches three oceans, we have a national and global responsibility, and an opportunity, to show strong leadership and to provide Canadians with what they want: plastic-free choices.

There is no time to waste when it comes to eliminating harmful and unnecessary plastic waste.

Sincerely, 
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