OTTAWA — The federal government will announce a plan Monday to ban harmful single-use plastics like drinking straws as early as 2021. The idea is to come up with a comprehensive plan to prohibit the production and sale of specific, toxic plastic products within a couple of years. “Where the best solution is to ban, it will be banned,” said one official familiar with the plan. Details will be announced Monday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna in Toronto and Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson in British Columbia. The proliferation of single-use plastic packaging like water bottles, drinking straws and food wrapping is sending massive amounts of plastic to landfills.

Source: National Post June 09, 2019 22:30 UTC