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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.

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[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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)

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.