The Liberals began implementing a plan to require up to 60 per cent of food packaging be made from recycled plastic by 2030
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to end the federal single-use plastic ban on items like straws and grocery bags if his party is elected.
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Poilievre says he would repeal all the bans the Liberals implemented on plastics including grocery bags and cutlery.
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He would also end Liberal plans to standardize plastic packaging and labelling to make it easier to recycle, referring to it as a “plastic tax” on food packaging.
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The previous Liberal government banned six single-use plastic items in 2022 after designating plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
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A Federal Court quashed that designation in November 2023 saying it was too broad to say all manufactured plastic is toxic but the ban remains in place pending an appeal.
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The Liberals began implementing a plan to require up to 60 per cent of food packaging be made from recycled plastic by 2030.
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They were looking to increase how much plastic gets recycled in Canada with studies suggesting as much as 90 per cent of plastic waste ends up in landfills.
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Poilievre claims the plastic ban will cost the economy $1.3 billion over the next decade, and the average family $400 annually.
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