Sun- Cap on plastic production remains contentious as Ottawa set to host treaty talks
Negotiators from 176 countries will gather in downtown Ottawa this week for the fourth round of talks to create a global treaty to eliminate plastic waste in less than 20 years.
Guardian- Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution
The LignoSat probe has been built of magnolia wood, which, in experiments carried out on the International Space Station (ISS), was found to be particularly stable and resistant to cracking. Now plans are being finalised for it to be launched on a US rocket this summer.
Let’s start with the laughable irony of the Liberal government’s latest bureaucratic endeavor – a registry on plastics. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, in a tweet as tone-deaf as it is revealing, boasted about this registry saving Canadians money and creating a “more circular economy.” But when has expanding bureaucracy ever led to cost savings for the common man? This move reeks of hypocrisy and misplaced priorities. While Guilbeault and his colleagues pat themselves on the back for such trivial pursuits, they blatantly ignore the elephant in the room – foreign interference in Canada’s democracy.
Meanwhile, as this farce unfolds, genuine threats to our democracy are being swept under the rug. Blacklock’s Reporter reveals a startling truth: Attorney General Arif Virani has dismissed all-party demands to unmask agents of foreign influence. The Commons committee’s call for a registry of these agents is buried until after the next election. Why the delay? Could it be that the Liberals, embroiled in their own scandalous dance, find it convenient to postpone addressing these threats?
Global- The Federal Court just overturned Ottawa’s single-use plastic ban
The Federal Court has quashed a cabinet order that listed plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
The court says in a decision released today that it was not reasonable to say all plastic manufactured items are harmful because the category is too broad.
The decision has implications for the government’s ban of six single-use plastic items, including straws, grocery bags and takeout containers.
They’re not going to stop.
Stephen Guilbeault intends to ban the plastic that keeps the chicken salmonella from smearing all over your grapes.
Which is a much more effective way to explain Trudeau government insanity than this 916 word blah blah that (astonishingly) manages to include the word “commendable”.
We must eliminate plastic food wrap because hygiene is racist.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department yesterday gave grocers until month’s end to comment on proposed curbs on single-use plastics like meat wrapping and fruit bags. A current ban on plastic six-pack rings and other goods will cost consumers $205 million, by official estimate: “There is a need to do business differently.”
In the city that banned plastic straws and bags… pic.twitter.com/eghtFWTCET
— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) July 20, 2023
“I go to the grocery store and buy a pound of deli ham in a plastic bag, bread in a plastic bag, milk in a plastic jug, napkins wrapped in plastic, store-made salad in a plastic tub, a plastic bottle of mustard and a plastic bottle of ketchup. But they won’t give me a plastic bag to carry it home, because the plastic bag is bad for the environment?”
Lorrie Goldstein- “The Regulations are expected to increase the tonnage of waste generated from substitutes by an estimated 275 943 tonnes in 1st year of full policy stringency (2024) or 2.9 million tonnes over the analytical period (2023/2032), almost all driven by paper substitutes.”
Government of Canada- Single-use Plastics Prohibition Regulations
Patrick Moore, PhD – The great Pacific garbage patch twice the size of Texas is fake
Of all the fabricated narratives about the environment, this one takes the cake. Yes, there is plastic in the oceans, mostly discarded fishing gear, but there is no island of plastic waste twice the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Because the average person cannot see the middle of the Pacific for themselves sensationalist activists, media, and politicians just make this up. In fact, plastic in the oceans is doing far more good than harm. Allow me to explain this bold assertion.
One of the things that I hate with a white hot passion in this world are paper straws. I don’t even like to look at them. And now Tim’s has made them a central part of a massive full saturation ad campaign. I see them everywhere.
BTW- All I care about is the food and it’s been going downhill since my childhood. Paper straws don’t make a stale donut taste any better.
Looks like we picked a bad day to quit plastic bags.