If Europe can do it, so can we!

Save the life of our planet! Ban single use plastics. If all the nations of Europe can agree to do it, it should be easy for Canada to do likewise. Cheers.

When a whale dies from having pounds of plastic in its stomach, we are the murderers. I’ve visited many beaches in different parts of the world and can’t get over how much plastic is washing up on the shores. Recycling won’t do it, humans are too side tracked with their daily lives to change habits... we need the government to ban single use plastics. Please!

Just noticing that my last year's daily calendar (gift) has a plastic backing, those things used to have a cardboard backing. Useless plastic right there! to live forever! -makes me mad. It is good to see that the Europeans are getting rid of single use plastics, hopefully also the plastic bags. Here in Canada plastic bags for grocery shopping are still in vogue. I talked to Safeway, the top people don't even consider to ask the customer to pay for same. Let's say 20% are bringing their own bags. that's not enough! The mindset of the common folk is only able to change when these bags are not available any more. then, people would go out to shop with bags, like we did 40 years ago, and there never was a complaint!

Is it not time to actually do something to benefit all living life on planet earth. We do not want to eat plastic in our fish or anything else.

It is time!

Ban plastic!

I have personally experienced many dangerous situation while boating....due to plastic tied around the propeller, etc. Animals, birds, etc. entangled with plastic around their necks and legs. Sad commentary for a Country that should put a better face forward. Let's stop destroying our Earth.

Its about time the whole world woke up and did something about it

I don't tweet so how can I add my name?

Thank you for taking this initiative! It is now a crisis that needs to be addressed.

Never leave litter??

I do not have Twitter, only email. I am disabled and have very little energy to do anything apart from signing petitions

Mr McKenna - You know we are drowning in plastic that won't leave us for generations to come. Now is the time to make serious changes. Thank you for doing the right thing for your children and mine

Anybody serious about this will start with their own use of plastics. I have stopped putting rubbish or re-cyclable materials in plastic bags. Use paper bags or old milk cartons, or anything but plastic. I try to avoid buying anything that is packaged in plastic - but this is very difficult. Sellers of groceries must be forced to wake up about this. Another point: when you have a plastic bag that must be discarded, cut it lengthways with scissors before doing so. One more animal in the sea is thus less likely to be trapped.

Stop the plastic pollution now.

We have let this happen, and we need to correct it. They used to use wax paper in cereal boxes, and now it looks like plastic. Straws don't have to be made of plastic. Go back to how they used to be. Make sure you recycle ALL the plastic that enters your home. If everyone tries hard we can do it and help our marine animals to live, free from eating plastic. We were better off when we paid a deposit for glass coca cola bottles etc. and also, one of the biggest problems is these stupid plasltic water bottles. People just toss them anywhere when they are empty. Nestles is also draining towns water for these stupid bottles.

Ban single use plastics now. So much unnecessary waste.

government must get involved not only to ban single-use plastics but also to encourage the development of alternative products.

Plastic pollution can only be stopped by you. Please take the necessary steps as expected, placing Canada on the right side of Historic decisions.

We need to ban all single use plastics - NOW!

Its hard to believe that we live in a world where we can not stop consuming and using single use plastics. It take effort to not do it! The government and we the people need and can change but you just have to say NO to plastic. Carry your own cups and reuseable cups and take containers and bags with you>> Don'w wait until it becomes law to change your habits! Everything matters... eating plastic in our food and drinking water with plastic particles is NOT smart!

This is a global problem, but we can start here to eradicate this major problem . We should then ween out our dépendance on oil .

We need to face up to all three sources of plastic pollution and find solutions to them. They are; 1) littering and intentional dumping of garbage, whether on land or at sea. Severe penalties need to be handed down to offenders, including sentencing them to picking up and cleaning up at least 1000 times the amount of garbage that they were caught dumping, whether it's one water bottle or a thousand kilos of trash. Cultural shaming of those who do so needs to be universal; If you litter you are a disgrace, a disgusting person who is killing the planet and all of us with it, and we all need to say so repeatedly and often until it ends. 2) unintentional loss of garbage containment caused by animals, wind, and rain. Inferior garbage containers get dumped over by dogs and other animals, and wind blows garbage out of them and blows them over, and garbage dumps both official and illegal get garbage blown out of them by wind and washed out of them by heavy rain. All garbage containers, dumps, and landfills need to be designed and built to effectively prevent any loss of containment. 3) floods. Rivers flood from excessive rainfall, and coastal areas flood from storm surges and tsunamis. Every time a developed area gets flooded a big percentage of all the man-made items in the area get washed down the river and out to sea, including the contents of garbage dumps and landfills. Dumps and landfills should never be allowed in floodplains and low-lying coastal areas. Buildings and infrastructure in those areas need to be designed and built to be flood-proof. This almost never happens today; even the most flood-prone areas are filled with conventional construction, as the owners simply hope they won't get flooded, and maybe buy flood insurance in case they do. The insurance may allow them to rebuild, but it does nothing to prevent the destruction and the loss of possessions and garbage into the water. Despite our best efforts, floods will still wash tons of items and garbage into the ocean every year, and ongoing ocean clean-up efforts will always be needed. Everything that's mixed is garbage, everything that's completely sorted is a resource that's worth money. Even a brick of gold is just garbage if it's powdered and completely mixed with a million tons of garbage, since recovering it would cost more than it's worth, and even human shit is worth big money if you have a thousand purified tons of it, especially if the people who produced it eat only natural and organic foods. Plastic pollution wouldn't be a problem if all the garbage was recycled, but this is impractical today because everyone mixes all their garbage together, or at best sorts it into very basic categories. So, even if it IS taken to a recycling center and sorted, it's incredibly labor intensive and expensive to sort it thoroughly, so most recycling facilities are very inefficient, and only a part of the most valuable materials is separated from the rest, with the remainder going to a landfill. It will still be many years before robots and AI can thoroughly and economically sort today's household garbage or industrial waste. Burning it all for energy, as they do in parts of Scandinavia, eliminates the garbage by converting most of it into megatons of carbon dioxide, which causes climate change, so that only trades one huge problem for another. The solution is to go to 100% recycling, and to make this practical by recognizing that it is an information problem. First, the manufacturers of everything (since everything that gets manufactured becomes garbage sooner or later) need to do everything they can to make it easy to disassemble every product into its component materials at the end of its usefulness, and they need to keep a publicly available database of every product they make and every material that goes into it, then this information needs to be recorded or referenced on every product with a barcode or other graphic that can be easily read by electronic scanners. Garbage bins need to be made with a barcode reader, and every item will be scanned before being placed barcode-down in the bin, which will be lined with a re-usable heavy-duty plastic bag that will also get a new removable barcode automatically printed and affixed to it when it is taken out of the bin. So, when it gets to the recycling center, every bag will have a barcode that tells the facility what's in the bag and the order that the items were placed in the bag. With this information, and the barcodes on the items inside the bag, a well-designed automated system with today's best technology WILL be able to achieve 100% sorting for an economical cost. Large groups of people or organizations with ample storage could make good money by completely sorting all the garbage that they produce AS it is produced, and never mixing it, compacting it to reduce storage space requirements, and selling it once they have a ton or so of each material. The manufacturing of items that cannot be separated by materials needs to be discouraged by every means possible. Packages that have two to four layers bonded together, like plastic/aluminum potato chip bags or plastic/paper/aluminum/plastic Tetra juice boxes, are very good at keeping food edible for a very long time, but they are almost impossible to recycle. A few unsortable items will still be produced, so we need to find ways to shred them and incorporate them into ashphalt and concrete, replacing natural sand and gravel, which are becoming increasingly scarce. Once these changes have been put in place we can make 100% recycling legally mandatory. The very concepts of "throwing things away" and "garbage disposal" need to be eliminated from our cultures completely.

Please ban the unessential plastic use, before it fills our ocean & lakes and destroy the marine life.

Please give our future a chance and help us have hope for our children and their children

Please please stop this catastrophe to the environment!!!! On behal of the world!!!!