Canada should have done this years ago. Some cities have local bans or a fee for a single use bag. We have tried to get people to use the reusable bags in Toronto. Sadly even though many of us complied, it has lead to bag hoarding. People buy a few groceries and buy a dozen single use plastic bags. They use one and store the rest at home. Next shopping trip they do the same thing. They end up with hundreds of single use plastic bags filling cupboards and drawers. Eventually they end up in landfill with the garbage.
A country wide ban will be effective. I just hope it doesn't cause panic buying of bags. Most people should be able to transition to ecofriendly reusable bags.
The list of who has banned bags and who has not is interesting. It is also embarrassing to be a country that is just about to ban bags when you see who has already done it. We are slow to do the right thing. I just hope average Canadians cooperate with the ban.
We all know we have to cut back on the amount of plastic we use, we just don't want to be the ones who actually have to do it.
A country wide ban will be effective. I just hope it doesn't cause panic buying of bags. Most people should be able to transition to ecofriendly reusable bags.
The list of who has banned bags and who has not is interesting. It is also embarrassing to be a country that is just about to ban bags when you see who has already done it. We are slow to do the right thing. I just hope average Canadians cooperate with the ban.
We all know we have to cut back on the amount of plastic we use, we just don't want to be the ones who actually have to do it.
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Catherine
