{"id":10670,"date":"2021-05-20T04:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=10670"},"modified":"2021-05-24T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:10:47","slug":"canada-declares-plastics-toxic-paving-the-way-for-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=10670","title":{"rendered":"Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/oil_plastic_2000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"157\" \/>\u201cI think the days of waiting for recycling to work are over,\u201d said Karen Wirsig, program manager for Environmental Defence. The organization has been working closely with several others, including Oceana Canada, to push the government to enact stronger plastics rules. \u201cWe need to reduce the amount of plastic that gets put on the market and therefore, into the environment. We need to find alternatives to plastics in many cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2021\/05\/canada-declares-plastics-toxic-ban-restrictions\/\">Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restrictions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>My three step plan:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Deposit\/return on all plastic containers, and more complex items (TV, applince) can also be included.\u00a0 We know deposit\/return, just look to The Beer Store.<\/li>\n<li>Fund deposite\/return by producers of plastics; not sure if all the back to the virgin resin producers, the plastic item creation in the press, or the end-manufactour (the one that sells to the somcumer, like RCA or IBM<\/li>\n<li>ban the use of plastics that can&#8217;t be recycled.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Problem: the politician that proposes the above will be laughed out of parliment.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"hzImg\" style=\"border: 4px solid #ffffff; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; margin: 4px; position: absolute; z-index: 2147483647; border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 1px 3px; visibility: visible; opacity: 1; top: 5px; left: 109px; cursor: pointer; pointer-events: none; width: auto; height: auto; background-color: #ffffff; display: none;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think the days of waiting for recycling to work are over,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[617,30,140,163],"class_list":["post-10670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canad","tag-environment","tag-paul","tag-plastic","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}