{"id":4804,"date":"2018-09-20T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:28:35","slug":"greenpeace-canada-65-of-surveyed-canadians-agree-governments-should-act-quickly-to-ban-single-use-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/4804\/greenpeace-canada-65-of-surveyed-canadians-agree-governments-should-act-quickly-to-ban-single-use-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"65% of surveyed Canadians agree governments should act quickly to ban single-use plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In light of Minister McKenna\u2019s announcement of a \u2018Zero Waste Strategy\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n<p><b>September 20, 2018 (VANCOUVER) &#8211;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In response to Minister McKenna\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/McKenna.Ottawa\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announcement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0of new actions through the federal government\u2019s \u2018Zero Plastic Waste Strategy\u2019, Greenpeace Canada has released results of a national survey that shows that the majority <\/span><b>(65%) of Canadians agree the government should act quickly to ban single-use plastics. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today Minister McKenna committed to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018collect, reuse and recycle at least 75%\u2019 of plastic waste from government operations by 2030<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019<\/span><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and announced investments in waste management in developing countries and innovation of new packaging and other technologies to address plastic waste. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EcoAnalytics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on behalf of Greenpeace Canada and other Canadian NGOs set out to measure <\/span><b>Canadians\u2019 environmental concern in 2018<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with regards to several environmental issues including plastic pollution. Of the environmental issues examined as most worrisome for Canadians, <\/span><b>plastics in the ocean is among the most frequently cited (by 32%) in their top three issues that worry them most. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Notable findings related to respondents\u2019 concerns and views include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>65%, agree that governments should work quickly to ban single-use plastics <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">such as plastic bags, straws, and bottles, even if neighboring jurisdictions fail to act.(<\/span>31%<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of them<\/span> <i>strongly agree <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with this notion). <\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li>75%<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of Canadians are <\/span>worried about the accumulation of plastics in oceans.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>80% <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of respondents in Ontario agree that <\/span><b>Ontario should do more to protect the Great Lakes from the threat of plastic pollution <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><b>39%<\/b> <b><i>strongly agree<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with this notion).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCanadians are ready for bold action, with the majority of respondents surveyed wanting quick action to ban single-use plastics, said <\/span><b>Sarah King, Head of Greenpeace Canada\u2019s Oceans and Plastics campaign<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cMcKenna\u2019s commitments are focused on government operations and largely end-of-pipe false solutions, begging the question of what about the 3.25 million tonnes of plastic waste generated nationwide? The federal government needs to stop the problem at the source by banning throwaway plastics and holding corporations accountable for the billions of plastic products they produce yearly that clog our waste streams and trash the environment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tomorrow marks the closing of the federal government\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/services\/managing-reducing-waste\/consultations\/moving-toward-zero-plastic-waste.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">public consultation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the national plastic strategy entitled \u2018Moving Canada Toward Zero Plastic Waste.\u2019 \u00a0Greenpeace Canada has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/2319\/statement-trudeaus-announcement-of-g7-ocean-plastics-charter-indicates-the-agreement-will-fail-to-adequately-address-plastic-pollution-crisis\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">previously called on <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the federal government to show leadership on this issue domestically, and will provide recommendations through the consultation process. Greenpeace Canada has encouraged members of the public<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/act.greenpeace.org\/page\/25175\/action\/1?utm_campaign=oceans&amp;utm_source=planet4&amp;utm_medium=webpage&amp;utm_content=en-oceans-plastic-consultation-p4actionpage_button&amp;ea.tracking.id=20180626-oceans-planet4-webpage-en-oceans-plastic-consultation-p4actionpage_button\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to participate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the public consultation, with <\/span><b>over 26,000<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> people contributing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Canada truly wants to lead the charge on championing solutions on plastic pollution, it needs to follow the lead of other progressive jurisdictions preventing polluting plastics from being created in the first place and focus its attention and investment on innovation that helps create truly more sustainable product delivery systems for communities that are centred on reuse and refilling, and not disposal,\u201d added King.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greenpeace Canada is calling on the Canadian government to<\/span><b> legislate binding plastic reduction targets, ban single-use plastics, invest in new delivery models based on reuse and refill systems, and hold corporations accountable for the entire life of their products, including the resulting pollution, as they transition to a new delivery model. \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-END-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About the survey:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0the survey was administered to an online panel of 3,000 Canadians over the period of May 25th to June 7th, 2018. The sample includes coverage of major Canadian regions including: British Columbia (n=500), Alberta (n=500), \u00a0Saskatchewan and Manitoba (n=500), Ontario (n=500), Qu\u00e9bec (n=500) and the Atlantic provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince-Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador (n=500). The Marketing Research Intelligence Association\u2019s Code of Conduct limits statements about margin of error for online non-probability samples. EcoAnalytics (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecoanalyticscanada.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.ecoanalyticscanada.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) is a non-profit research initiative of Canada&#8217;s environmental movement and researchers at l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 de Montreal and University of New Brunswick. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>*Save the date: reveal of Canadian Plastic Polluters on October 2nd.* <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following last <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/4481\/on-world-clean-up-day-greenpeace-canada-launches-coast-to-coast-plastic-polluters-brand-audits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">weekend\u2019s of clean ups and Plastic Polluter Brand Audits across Canada <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and around<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakfreefromplastic.org\/2018\/09\/13\/brand-audits-to-name-corporate-polluters\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the world<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in collaboration with the global #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement, <\/span><b>Greenpeace will reveal the major plastic polluting companies in Canada and globally, in early October. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>For media queries, to book interviews or request photos, please contact:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Loujain Kurdi, Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada, \u00a0+1 (514) 577-6657, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:loujain.kurdi@greenpeace.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">loujain.kurdi@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>About Brand Audits and Plastic Pollution:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ahead of World Environment Day in June, the global Break Free From Plastic movement had called for G7 countries to pass binding reduction targets and bans on single-use plastics, invest in new product delivery models based on reuse, and hold polluting corporations accountable. Billions of single-use, throwaway plastic packaged products and disposable plastic items are produced, used and become trash every year in Canada. Only 10 to 12% of the plastic produced yearly is recycled. The rest goes to landfills, is burned or ends up in the environment. The Canadian government notes that in 2010, Canada released 8000 tonnes of plastic waste into the oceans from land, contributing to up to 12.7 million tonnes entering the oceans globally each year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of Minister McKenna\u2019s announcement of a \u2018Zero Waste Strategy\u2019 Greenpeace Canada: 65% of surveyed Canadians agree governments should act quickly to ban single-use plastics September 20, 2018 (VANCOUVER)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4807,"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-4804","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\/4804","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4812,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}