https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/canadas-battle-against-plastic-pollution-environmental-defence-canadian-environmental-policy-national-strategy/117183
The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME), has plans
to meet in Ottawa on Friday, November 23. The meeting has not been
talked about much in the media and it is not well publicized, however,
if all goes as signals suggest, this meeting could be a game-changer in
moving our country forward in the global plastics fight.
"Right now there is no national recycling target. There are no rules
requiring or even encouraging plastic producers to use recycled plastic.
There are not even bans on hard-to-recycle or toxic plastics like
styroforam. Producers are allowed to put any kind of packaging onto the
market, and municipalities have to figure out how to deal with it."
Less than 11 per cent of all plastics are recycled in Canada
90 per cent of plastics end up incinerated, or in our landfills, lakes, parks and oceans
Once in the environment, plastic waste contaminates ecosystems, kill wildlife, and leach toxic chemicals
Oh fuck that's... actually kind of sort of a lloott
stop baggin your milk you heathens, and start putting it in paper-based cartons.
sure glad I spend effort sorting my recyclables...
Could just split the baby and put milk in paper bags, I'm sure it'll be fine.
C'mon, Canada.
https://youtu.be/GfU8CZVNb6o
I don't know outside my area, but milk seems to be mostly sold in plastic containers in the U.S.? Not a bag, but a rinse-able gallon/half-gallon/etc.
I've never seen bagged milk in my life
thankfully, not for the Boards of Canada
https://youtu.be/XaJn3QqiIUc
How much of that 90% is processed and how much of it ends up in nature? That's a very significant detail to skim over
Aren't paper-based cartons/tetrapaks a bit of a pain in the arse to recycle as they're a mixture of paper, plastics and sometimes aluminium coated on the inside.
Yeah those carton based containers are a mix of materials. I was just making a jest with the 'heathens' post
Yeah in America we do have plastic gallons for milk. But we also have recycling facilities for them. Personally not sure on the percent recycle rate we have here, but it might be more than Canada's apparently.
Unfortunately Styrofoam and Polystyrene are tricky to recycle, however they can be incinerated for steam power but of course that leads to CO2 emission unless you pump that CO2 into an algae farm or something.
Another alternative that's way more eco friendly is to allow mealworms to eat the stuff. They can breakdown a sizeable amount of polystyrene into their feces and CO2 which is still less CO2 than pure incineration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9PWzkUG2s
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