{"id":25759,"date":"2023-02-13T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25759"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T01:06:13","slug":"we-break-down-your-plastic-bag-alternatives-the-greenest-option-may-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25759","title":{"rendered":"We break down your plastic-bag alternatives: The greenest option may surprise you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thestar.com\/wN_otqYHjlXW3Sz2nOCE9TaFyM4=\/1086x724\/smart\/filters:cb(1676314286959):format(webp)\/https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/content\/dam\/thestar\/news\/canada\/2023\/02\/13\/breaking-down-your-plastic-bag-alternatives-the-greenest-option-may-surprise-you\/plastic_bag_web.jpg\" width=\"282\" height=\"188\" \/>There are questions about the options being used to replace the ubiquitous plastic bag \u2014 and about the impact Canada\u2019s ban will have.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2023\/02\/13\/breaking-down-your-plastic-bag-alternatives-the-greenest-option-may-surprise-you.html\">We break down your plastic-bag alternatives: The greenest option may surprise you<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Some points from the article&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Grocery stores were made responsible for creating a closed-loop system, installing bins in the front of stores to collect the bags and ensuring they are recycled. The cost is born by consumers who are charged $0.10 a bag.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The chain is trying to create a circular economy for its reusable bags, running a pilot at its Guelph store where it has installed a \u201cGOATOTE\u201d kiosk. Customers can check out clean reusable bags for a fee, and return them within a month, after which they are cleaned, sanitized and put back into circulation in the kiosk.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also that while we need to do things to reduce our plastic consumption, recall that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=21107\" target=\"_blank\">Canadians are pretty good at this<\/a> already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are questions about the options being used to replace the ubiquitous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,163,162],"class_list":["post-25759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-plastic","tag-recycling","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25759","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=25759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}