Trudeau to ban single-use plastic items

Vincent J. Curtis

11 June 2019

At first blush, the banning of plastic straws, Styrofoam cups, and plastic grocery bags seems like a bagatelle.  But on second thought, you have to wonder what is going on?

How does municipal waste from Canada end up in the ocean off China?

The answer is that Canada relies on the corrupt practices of third world countries to deal with a problem we ought to solve ourselves.  By banning certain plastic items, Trudeau is confirming us in the practice of dumping our garbage in the third world.

Single use plastics are used for reasons of public health, and so Trudeau picked one of the dumbest ways of addressing the problem of our waste off China’s coast.  He should ban or heavily tax the export of our municipal waste.

Canada has the wealth, space, and technology to dispose of our own waste, but we lack the will to do so.  Rather than confront Canadians with the problem we have to solve honorably ourselves, Trudeau takes an easy and unhealthy way out.
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