The federal government will announce Monday that it intends, if re-elected, to figure some way of banning countless plastic items we use daily like coffee cup lids and food containers. It would include straws and other single-use conveniences of which there are apparently thousands. No list of banned products will be revealed right away. It would be a very long list based on the criteria suggested. Canadian Press says the Liberals want to look at the empirical evidence and do their own research to determine which products should be outlawed to help reduce the millions of tons of plastic waste that ends up in oceans each year. Much single-use plastic goes to landfills but there is a body of waste control opinion that says it should be burned in large waste-to-energy incinerators like the one at Clarington in Durham Region.
