Single-use Plastic Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:41:40 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Canada announces single-use plastic ban in effect as early as 2021 /euc/news-story/canada-announces-single-use-plastic-ban-in-effect-as-early-as-2021/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:41:40 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=news-story&p=3176 Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson announced on  October 7 that Canada will be banning many single-use plastics by 2021, as a means of achieving the country’s goal of producing zero plastic waste by 2030. Among the soon-to-be banned items are: plastic straws, plastic cutlery, plastic grocery bags, six-pack rings for beverages, stir sticks, […]

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