Single use plastic

[caro766]

That would be awesome to ban those groceries plastic bags. people would get used to it. In Quebec those bags have been banned for more than 10 years and Montreal is already on the way to ban the plastic water bottle. Let's do it!

[WalterWhite]

Links are always handy, and appreciated:

https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-s ... htm#246819

[jimmy4321]

So whats the difference between regular garbage bags and grocery bags, which i often use for garbage?

[soupy]

Should probably ban single use needles too ...

[Fancy]

That would be awesome to ban those groceries plastic bags. people would get used to it. In Quebec those bags have been banned for more than 10 years and Montreal is already on the way to ban the plastic water bottle. Let's do it!

Montreal is banning 500-millilitre bottles at city events and in municipal buildings, such as arenas and libraries - not in total.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local- ... -buildings

[Jlabute]

I use a zero-water at home only because I hate constantly doing all the recycling. The family likes pure water. I personally don't care and drink from the tap if I have to, and use tap water for coffee when no one is looking, lol. As for plastic bags, I use them for garbage... otherwise as stated, I'd be purchasing another type of plastic bag to do the same thing. Are stores going to ban plastic bags here? They make a lot of extra money from them which does not benefit the environment.

I had a horrible paper straw experience at A&W last week. Using their paper straw and sucking on a thick milkshake caused a lot of air leakage and the straw did not work very well at all. My son and I ended up just taking the top off and drinking from the cup. So now I keep a few plastic straws in the glove box handy ;-)

Straws are 0.03% of disposable plastic waste by mass. Banning them is a microscopic change and opens the door for transmission of infections. If the greenies were really serious about plastic waste, they would look in to fishing equipment which accounts for 46% of the ocean wide waste.

[I Give Up]

Banning the use of various plastics is not necessarily the responsibility of the province. Cities across North America have already done so.

West Kelowna, for instance, could pass a bylaw tomorrow that eliminates the use of plastic straws (A&W has already switched).

Same goes for plastic egg packaging, plastic food wraps, grocery bags, etc. CBC Marketplace* just produced a fantastic show on "Irresponsible use of plastic at grocery stores", who have basically done nothing. CBC implied that volumes of plastic packaging and wrapping could be substituted with alternates.

When I was a kid, we hardly ever saw disposable plastic, and guess what... we all survived. West Kelowna, it just takes some balls and the stroke of just one council members' pen to get it started. West Kelowna could finally be the FIRST at something, instead of copy catting someone else.

* link https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/plasti ... -1.4969379

BTW West Kelowna Counsel... how is the approval of the cannabis regulations coming.... or are you still waiting for the "other" Kelowna to do it first? Grow a pair!

[oneh2obabe]

I had a horrible paper straw experience at A&W last week. Using their paper straw and sucking on a thick milkshake caused a lot of air leakage and the straw did not work very well at all. My son and I ended up just taking the top off and drinking from the cup. So now I keep a few plastic straws in the glove box handy ;-)

Or order stainless steel straws to use at home and keep a couple in your glove box.
https://www.amazon.ca/Stainless-Colohas ... straw&th=1

[the truth]

*removed*

[OKkayak]

If you're having a root beer or Coke, Twizzler's work real good as a straw

[Kelowna_Born]

I tried searching why single use straws are bad. #1 Plastic takes forever to break down, #2 and bad for the oceans.

In the Okanagan we bury are garbage with thousands of tons of soil and other garbage in a landfill, with the site never be used again and forever known to be a landfill site.

I'm not sure if a plastic bag or straw can fly from the Okanagan all the way to the Pacific Ocean?

Is 200 years in this world (4.543 Billion Years Old) really all that long to break down? Who did that accelerated study saying it takes 200 years?

I've gone up camping and have seen the same plastic bag someone left the year prior, almost completely disintegrated.

Maybe we should start banning plastic Single-Use Drink Toppers, Needles, Band-Aids, IV Tubing or Windshield Wipers.

I do use my Green Super-Store bins as much as I can. Sometimes I forget them. Have you ever tried to pack out 100lbs of Groceries in one of those Giant paper bags because you can only carry one at a time, compared to 6 plastic bags that I re-cycle by using them as garbage bags.

If the Okanagan wants to ban straws and bags, please ban everything else we use and toss out made of plastic then.

[Fancy]

I'm not giving up zap straps. I'll give up plastic straws and plastic single use bottles first.

[lesliepaul]

Thank god I am well stocked up on plastic bags and plastic straws for life. I can just see it now...…….walk into an A&W, see people struggling with their paper straws, order a drink...….sit down......and pull out a plastic straw. Kids will be pointing and asking their parents...……."what's that he's using mommy"?...……."can we get some of those, they work cool".

……….and there could be money to be made...…...stand outside any fast food restaurant...……."pssst……..hey buddy, you need a plastic straw"...….."I can fix you up with plastic bags too".

[Whyme2]

That would be awesome to ban those groceries plastic bags. people would get used to it. In Quebec those bags have been banned for more than 10 years and Montreal is already on the way to ban the plastic water bottle. Let's do it!

Yes but what about Ontario and Quebec selling the majority of the "Milk" consumed in plastic bags

[Whyme2]

If you're having a root beer or Coke, Twizzler's work real good as a straw

And taste great!