If anyone senses that the environmental movement excels at perpetually shifting goalposts, here’s more evidence.  It appears that every ban on one alleged environmental injustice simply creates another environmental hazard, which in turn requires another ban. In the future, maybe your Big Mac could be placed in one hand and a pile of fries in the other. Will customers just guzzle pop from a common tap? Who knows at this point.

“We absolutely need to shift away from using plastics as much as we do, but trading in plastic pollution for deforestation and forest degradation is not the answer,” Canopy founder and executive director Nicole Rycroft told CTV News. “We really need to make sure we do not create another environmental disaster.”

With the ban, single-use plastic consumption is starting to wane, but in many cases those products have been replaced by paper alternatives. Rycroft points to grocery stores, now providing paper bags at checkout, as an example of that.