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.

  • MisterD
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    1 year ago

    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)

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • Victor Villas
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      1 year ago

      The hard part of governing is not handwaving solutions, it’s amassing the political power and social capital to implement them.

      • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That is in part the jobs of our elected officials and politicians. Unfortunately it seems unless you are a developer, they don’t really care about what you have to say.