Stop recycling failed ideas to manage plastic waste

We cannot afford to focus our efforts on dealing with plastic after it becomes waste, when avoiding waste in the first place is the more efficient and effective strategy.

Some of the so-called recycling imagined for the future would not turn plastic back into plastic, but rather into chemicals and fuel, an expensive, polluting and climate-warming strategy that should not be called recycling, writes Karen Wirsig. The Hill Times Photograph by Kristen Shane

Opinion

BY KAREN WIRSIG

October 19, 2022

Can you remember the last thing you bought that wasn’t made from, or packaged in, plastic? From double-wrapped cucumbers to throw-away coffee cups, it is more and more difficult for Canadians to buy the things they need without leaving behind plastic trash—92 per cent of which ends up in landfil...

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