Canada's Plastic Crisis and Environmental Policies

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[...] The same difficulties are felt at the government level. In June 2019, the Government, led by Justin Trudeau, gave its approval for the construction of a second pipeline in Alberta (to transport oil to Asia) while a few weeks later, it decided to ban single-use plastics by 2021. The questions are then great and the opinions are shared. According to the numbers announced by M. Trudeau, it is 3 million tons of plastic thrown away in Canada, which currently has a recycling rate of less than 10% for this product transformed by the petrochemical industry. [...]

[...] " contribute to making it a major priority for environmental defenders, while others, and more particularly the Conservatives, worry about jobs. However, the pursued objectives are not antagonistic, as it is not a matter of totally banning single-use plastic, but just a part (straws, plastic bags . ) and above all 'educate' the Canadian consumer by raising awareness about the end-of-life of their waste. The factories must also learn to value the end-of-life of their products and according to M. [...]