{"id":40605,"date":"2023-11-22T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=40605"},"modified":"2023-11-22T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T12:31:00","slug":"ccc-plastics-court-ruling-a-win-for-consumers-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=40605","title":{"rendered":"CCC: Plastics court ruling a win for consumers, environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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OTTAWA, ONT.:<\/strong> Last week a federal court ruled that Ottawa overstepped in designating all “manufactured plastic items” as toxic under CEPA, which puts Ottawa’s single-use plastics ban in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Clement, Toronto based North American Affairs Manager for the Consumer Choice Center (CCC), responded stating: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The court ruling is a huge win for consumers, and for the environment,” said Clement in a release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The federal government using CEPA to regulate plastics, and following that up with a single-use ban, was the laziest route they could take in dealing with the issue of plastic waste.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Unravelling the single-use plastic ban would be a win for consumers because the alternatives are more expensive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“According to Ottawa’s own analysis, paper bags are 2.6 times more expensive than plastic bags. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Single-use cutlery made of wood is 2.25 times more expensive than plastic cutlery, while paper straw alternatives are three times more expensive,” said Clement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clement said the ban on these single-use items was also bad for the environment, because it pushed consumers to alternatives that are worse in terms of environmental impact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“According<\/a> to Denmark\u2019s environment ministry, paper bags would each need to be re-used 43 times to bring their per-use impact on the environment down to the per-use impact of the single-use plastic bags,” he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When the alternative option is a cotton bag, that number skyrockets to 7,100 uses. A consumer substituting a cotton bag for plastic would need 136 years of weekly grocery store trips to be as environmentally friendly as single-use plastic is,” said Clement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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