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B.C. announces details of single-use plastics ban | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Starting in December, single-use items such as plastic shopping bags, disposable food service accessories, oxo-degradable plastics and food service packaging made of polystyrene foam, PVC, PVDC, compostable or biodegradable plastics will no longer be allowed to be sold in B.C.

This is needed both in the short and long term. I'll be curious to see what solutions pop up to replace what we've become used to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

compostable or biodegradable plastics will no longer be allowed to be sold

This is needed both in the short and long term

If you hate biodegradable and compostable things, you're the baddie. The math seems solid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm mean, they are better than the non-degradable plastics, but it's not like they breakdown remotely fast. Those products are more greenwash, [airquotes] biodegradable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I often re-use the biodegradable bags for garbage, and half the time they're disintegrating before the bag's even full.

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