Almost everything we buy is covered in plastic wrapping or covering. How about Zip Loc sandwhich bags? Plastic straws and cutlery are easy targets to ban that will not make a dent on this problem, so it's a useless first step. If they really wanted to do something useful, they should suggest or mandate an alternative to plastic wrapping or covering on all store-bought and online-bought items. But's that would be too difficult, or realistically, impossible.
Single-Use Plastics Ban
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And on the same topic: it is OK fro the store to package meat in individual plastic trays with plastic wrap around it, have pre-packaged fruits, toys with each small item in hard plastic, etc. But there is a problem when people use one plastic bag that holds several such items. Going for customers is easy peeking: it is noticeable by everyone, and, while it may annoy many people, it will, at the same time, provide an illusion to the same people that they are doing something meaningful. The older I am, the more I feel that 95% of all people are idiots and they happy to be that way.
If you're old enough you will surely remember Knob Hill Farms who never had plastic bags as far as I can recall. I still have a number of their plastic shopping bins that I now use for laundry. Same thing goes for discount retailers like No Frills, Price Chopper, etc. who had a stash of cardboard boxes at the front and still charge for bags. Funny enough, No Frills bags are probably the highest quality ones out there and don't rip easily.
Square One and Eaton Centre did have plastic dinner ware and metal cutlery for a while in the food court. That did change with the pandemic when they all went back to single use plastic or foam packaging.
It is possible to live without all those plastic utensils, cups and plates that are wrapped in plastic and are shipped in cardboard boxes wrapped in plastic.
Square One and Eaton Centre did have plastic dinner ware and metal cutlery for a while in the food court. That did change with the pandemic when they all went back to single use plastic or foam packaging.
It is possible to live without all those plastic utensils, cups and plates that are wrapped in plastic and are shipped in cardboard boxes wrapped in plastic.
I don't believe that plastic bags should be banned - particularly for restaurants and take out. Restaurants will have use paper which is more costly to produce and impacts the environment worse than paper (Google it). If I get paper - it goes into the waste basket when it gets home but plastic bags I save for lining garbage bins, lunches, etc. So what do I have to do because I don't have plastic grocery bags - I go out and buy them ! Other than me buying me paying ~ $0.10 each for what was once free - what are we really saving ???
If the argument is plastic is a petroleum based product and should be saved - a grocery bag weighs ~ 4 grams. Your car has ~ 350 Kg of plastic (~90,000 bags) - so I would suggest grocery bags are not a significant resource problem. I am not arguing plastic straws but the banning of plastic bags is bull shit (in my humble view)
If the argument is plastic is a petroleum based product and should be saved - a grocery bag weighs ~ 4 grams. Your car has ~ 350 Kg of plastic (~90,000 bags) - so I would suggest grocery bags are not a significant resource problem. I am not arguing plastic straws but the banning of plastic bags is bull shit (in my humble view)
