Canada’s effort to reduce plastics pollution have been found wanting

Somewhere along the line, we focused our attention away from reducing material use and reusing as much as possible, to recycling as the solution to our waste problem.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, pictured in 2017, threatened to declare war on Canada for the containers of garbage labelled as recyclable material sent to his country. Wikimedia Commons photograph

Opinion

BY MYRA HIRD

June 5, 2019

Recently, Canada has been getting some bad press. Since 2013, the Philippines has been asking Canada to take back some 69 shipping containers filled with garbage, erroneously labelled as recyclable material. Fed up with the Canadian federal government’s inertia, Philippines President Rodrigo Duter...

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