Banning plastics: another Trudeau strike at Alberta

Vincent J. Curtis

21 June 22

RE: More single-use plastics to be banned

Among the many dumb things the low-IQ Trudeau government has done, banning plastics because they are “single-use” ranks among the most anti-scientific.  When the pandemic broke out, banning plastic was postponed because single-use plastics were healthier than reusable bags.

The campaign against single-use plastics rests on two arguments: that the oceans are being choked with these things, and that they fill up land-fill sites.  The Trudeau government has argued both, notwithstanding that they contradict each other.  There are ten rivers, eight in Asia, and two in Africa which account for all the plastic garbage floating in the oceans.  Canada does not dump its municipal garbage into her rivers to dispose of it, the Canadian practice is to use landfills.

Hamilton might remember SWARU, the solid waste reduction unit.  It burned garbage, reducing the volume sent to landfill by sixty percent.  The are used throughout the world, such as in Japan.  Plastics are combustible, and the pollution control technology has vastly improved since the 1960s.  If volume of plastics is a real concern, then build SWARUs, and get rid of all combustible garbage, not just Greenpeace’s drive-by target of the month.

A political angle is that Alberta produces plastics, while northern Ontario produces paper.  Alberta votes solidly CPC, while northern Ontario elects Liberal cabinet ministers.  Banning plastics in favor of paper is another way Trudeau strikes at his political opponents.

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