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