How many people today grab a takeaway coffee cup from the local cafe to drink on the go? We don’t know, but the number must be enormous.. Most every one of the above have a plastic top that will last 100s of years. Some cafes still use plastic cups that last a similar time. Is 10 minutes of coffee worth 100s of years of trash?
These items can be seen littering our gutters and on our streets all over the place. If they were all cardboard, they would still be littered, but they would, at least, be gone in a short time.
They do not need to be made of plastic.
On the way home from the gym last week, a distance of about 1 km (1/2 mile), I counted the items of plastic litter on the curb as I walked. In that short distance I counted 63 pieces of plastic litter. Plastic drink bottles, bottle tops, candy wrappers, plastic film, polystyrene fragments etc. That seemed to be a lot to me. I guess it is a generational thing. Our parents would have been horrified to see that amount, whereas it seems to go unnoticed by our youth of today. In another 20 years how many pieces will there be on this stretch, -- 200? What will today’s youth think of that new amount then when they are older? Will their children be so readily accepting of a higher amount of litter? Canada scraps export ban on single-use plastics
Posted on January 7, 2026 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource: Canada scraps export ban on single-use plastics – Plastics News
Canada has canceled its planned ban on the export of certain single-use plastics.
The policy change, announced Oct. 20 by Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin, reverses course on a regulation that would have prohibited the export of six categories of single-use plastics starting Dec. 20, 2025. The items included checkout bags, cutlery, stir sticks, six-pack rings, foodservice containers, and certain plastic straws.
Dabrusin said the decision followed a review of trade dynamics and global policy alignment. The government concluded that few countries were following suit with similar bans, and that international buyers would simply turn to other suppliers — undermining the policy’s intent and harming Canadian manufacturers without meaningfully reducing plastic waste.
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