Effective July 1st, businesses are no longer permitted to provide new plastic shopping bags to customers. Paper bags now come with a mandatory minimum fee of $0.15 as well.
Happy waste reducing, y'all!
Single-use Item Reduction | City of Edmonton
https://www.edmonton.ca/programs_services/garbage_waste/single-use-items
3 Comments
altasshet@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y
There seen to be a lot of exemptions - the flimsy plastic bags to put produce in aren't going anywhere, for example. Neither are plastic containers for baked goods (donuts and that stuff).
Kind of understandable, that's a much larger supply chain issue. Better than nothing, but not enough, I think.
chmilz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y
The rules are largely related to restaurants at the moment. Everyone else can continue their unchecked pollution.
fixerdude2@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
This was poorly planned and not thought out properly. The front line workers have to take the brunt of public outrage.
It's also not sanitary. I got a Timmies wrap handed to me with bare hands. No bags or paper wrapping.