Recycling won’t cut it: a roadmap for a plastic-free Canada

If there’s one thing this crisis doesn’t need, it’s another voluntary, non-legally binding charter that doesn’t require action from participating nations.
The equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastics enters our oceans every minute, writes Greenpeace's Farrah Khan.
Concerns over plastic pollution have never been more prevalent in public discourse. We have more evidence than ever about the abundance of plastics in our environment and their effects on communities and wildlife. Birds are getting trapped in plastic bags, straws are choking sea turtles, and coasta...

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