Businesses can't offer plastic bags anymore, not even for a price. Instead, shoppers need to pay at least 15 cents for a paper bag or at least $1 for a new reusable bag. Gavin Young/Postmedia
New single-use plastic regulations will come into effect this week. As our Taya Fast reports, the new ban will largely impact grocery stores and restaurants. – Dec 19, 2022
A week of United Nations negotiations over a treaty to end global plastic pollution closed on Friday with many ideas and few decisions, as participants begin the work needed to produce the first legally binding treaty on the issue by the end of 2024.
On Wednesday, June 1st, the Colombian Congress approved the legislative unanimity of the bill that seeks to regulate from the year 2025 the gradual reduction and eventual prohibition of certain single-use (disposable) plastic components.
Canada is banning the manufacture and importation of single-use plastics by the end of the year, the government announced on Monday, in a major effort to combat plastic waste and address climate change.
The ACT Government's ban on single-use plastic cutlery, drink stirrers and polystyrene food and beverage containers commenced 1 July 2021, with straws, cotton bud sticks and degradable plastics phased out on 1 July 2022.
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LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Three in four people worldwide want single-use plastics to be banned as soon as possible, according to a poll released on Tuesday, as United Nations members prepare to begin talks on a global treaty to rein in soaring plastic pollution.
The Victorian Government is leading by example. As of 1 February 2022, the single-use plastic items that are to be banned statewide are no longer used by government departments and agencies across the Victorian public service.
The Government of Canada is moving forward with a comprehensive plan to address plastic pollution in the long term that includes a ban on certain harmful single-use plastics in the short term.