Poilievre promises to bring back single-use plastic bags, cutlery

[chuckChuck]

Poilievre promises to bring back single-use plastic bags, cutlery
[url]https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/poilievre-promises-to-bring-back-single-use-plastic-bags-cutlery[/url]


Wow! PP is really struggling, so his big issue is bringing back many single use plastic items like straws, cutlery and shopping bags! A real vote getter for sure! LOL

PP following another dumb tRump idea at a time when he needs not to be like tRump!

Again PP you better fire your campaign organizers and ban them from running nothing more than bake sales, because they are really stupid!

Just what we need, more plastics going into land fills and the oceans and our bodies when biodegradble and safer effective options are available and more on there way.

Remembering reusable shopping bags must be really hard for some conservatives!

And paper straws don't work! So sad!

How did humans ever survive before the era of plastic straws and shopping bags?

Life was so difficult before single use consumer plastics.


Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time

Peer-reviewed study’s findings raises fresh question on the toxic substances’ impact on fertility

The findings represent a major step toward figuring out how and why microplastics impact women’s reproductive health, but are also “very alarming”, Luigi Montano, a researcher at the University of Rome and study lead author, said.

“This discovery should serve as an important warning signal about the invasiveness of these emerging contaminants in the female reproductive system,” the study states.

From the top of Mt Everest to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, microplastics and smaller nanoplastics have been detected throughout the environment. Food is thought to be a main exposure route: recent studies found them in all meat and produce products tested.

Microplastics are particularly dangerous because they can contain any number of 16,000 plastic chemicals. That includes highly toxic compounds like PFAS, bisphenol and phthalates that are linked to cancer, neurotoxicity, hormone disruption or developmental toxicity.

[url]https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/19/microplastics-human-ovary-follicular-fluid[/url]

[cropgrower]

all the food is already wrapped in plastic , but you cant put it a plastic bag to bring it home , liberal logic !

[chuckChuck]

So Crop you want more plastic in the land fill and oceans? LOL

Food is unnecessarily over packaged and has too much plastic packaging.



The Liberal government has also proposed further changes to regulations for the plastic packaging used for grocery items that include five key objectives, including:

• Eliminating unnecessary packaging by a 2035.
• Ensure plastic-free packaging for 75 per cent fresh fruits and vegetables sold in bulk by 2026, and 95 per cent sold in bulk by 2028.
• Making sure all "primary food packaging" — plastic that comes into direct contact with fresh food — is recyclable by 2028.
• Companies must increase the use of refillable plastics, reduce disposable plastics and concentrated plastics over time.
• Increasing the use of recyclable content in food packaging to 10 per cent by 2028, 20 per cent by 2030 and 30 per cent by 2035.

[Hamloc]

Every time I get a paper straw I think how much I despise Trudeau. When the wife phones and asks me to grab something at the grocery store and I have to buy a reusable bag(which unless I use it at least 50 times is worse than a single use bag) again I think what a moronic policy. As for eliminating packaging on fruits or meat, hmm you want to sacrifice food cleanliness? I think Poilievre’s policy is spot on. Scream all you want Chuck2!

[Hamloc]

Oh I forgot. When I go to UFA and they put my purchases in a paper bag and the fricking bag breaks on the way to the car, again I think what a moronic policy.

[chuckChuck]

Well Hamloc that explains it then!

You have no effing memory and are poorly organized. Change is hard when you are old and a conservative!

And you forgot how to drink out of a glass or bottle!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Without a doubt this is the defining issue of our times. Will most certainly be what the election is decided on.

[Grain Farmer]

Plastic was brought in to save the trees.
all those cardboard boxes that were burnt by grocery stores before someone decided recycling. That most don't do today either.

[checking]

Trees are made to be cut!

When this first switched, I had a long tube sock stuffed with plastic bags hung up by the door. Eventually, it ran out, and I thought this would be a crisis. It wasn't, and I got use to not missing them. Being a better alternative, and stores run on cardboard boxes, it is now common place to be given a box for groceries. I know I wouldn't want the plastic return.

As for plastic straws, one would last a lifetime. Throw it in the glove compartment, and tell the drive thru to keep there paper straw.

Trees were made to look at!

[shtferbrains]

When recently in California I noticed they have plastic straws and plastic bags that you pay 5cents for.
They have regulations that we haven't even thought of but usually show up here eventually. But they do have plastic straws straws and bags.
Population similar to Canada.

Where we go is right on a harbor but I have never seen a garbage scow that dumps the straws into the ocean to get stuck in the whales nose.

The largest agricultural crop in that area is strawberries. Thousands of acres. The fields are 100% covered with the same plastic you see in grain bags and they measure yield in tons per acre, all picked into those little plastic boxes we see in the store.
Under the plastic they have those little plastic tubes about the size of a straw for irrigation.
That all goes into a dumpster as the production goes down with age.
High cost business.

Don't know why they haven't banned straws?