{"id":23808,"date":"2019-06-27T17:33:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=23808"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:27:29","slug":"national-plastic-action-plan-phase-one-where-is-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/23808\/national-plastic-action-plan-phase-one-where-is-the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"National plastic action plan phase one &#8211; where is the plan?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vancouver<\/strong> &#8211; In response to the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment\u2019s action plan on plastic waste in Canada, Greenpeace Canada Head of Plastic and Oceans Campaign, Sarah King said:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe CCME\u2019s Action Plan is so off base when it comes to actually tackling the plastic pollution crisis and the tonnes of plastic produced, consumed and thrown out each year across this country that it\u2019s almost a farce. This whole plan is focused on making better plastics and what to do with plastic waste once it is created, meanwhile billions of throwaway plastics are produced each week. The word reduction is barely mentioned, and mainly in reference to waste. The word reuse is even less. You cannot address plastic pollution and reduce plastic waste without reducing production, distribution and consumption. Unless the environment ministers and federal government get serious about reduction by banning problem plastics and supporting a new system of product delivery in Canada based on reuse and refill models, we will be no further ahead by the plan\u2019s set deadlines.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-30-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>For more information, contact:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marie-Christine Fiset, Head of Media, Greenpeace Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mfiset@greenpeace.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mfiset@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; +1 514 400-3256<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver &#8211; In response to the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment\u2019s action plan on plastic waste in Canada, Greenpeace Canada Head of Plastic and Oceans Campaign, Sarah King&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":9367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-23808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-sustainably","tag-plastic","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23810,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23808\/revisions\/23810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23808"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=23808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}