{"id":60187,"date":"2023-08-03T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=60187"},"modified":"2023-08-03T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:31:16","slug":"reaction-to-the-federal-governments-announcement-aiming-to-reduce-plastic-food-packaging-in-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/60187\/reaction-to-the-federal-governments-announcement-aiming-to-reduce-plastic-food-packaging-in-retail\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction to the federal government\u2019s announcement aiming to reduce plastic food packaging in retail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Vancouver \u2013<\/strong> In response to the federal government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/news\/2023\/08\/how-can-canada-reduce-plastic-food-packaging-have-your-say-now.html\">announcement<\/a> on a Pollution Prevention Planning Notice (P2 Notice) for plastic packaging that comes into direct contact with food, <strong>Greenpeace Canada\u2019s Head of Oceans and Plastics campaign Sarah King, said:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWe are encouraged to see the federal government focus zero plastic waste efforts on a hub of plastic packaging \u2014 the retail sector. We\u2019ve known the role that retailers play in our collective plastic footprint, and the opportunity they present to drive a shift away from our single-use packaging disaster. The government\u2019s emphasis on encouraging reuse systems is positive and crucial, but in order to accelerate the necessary transition to a reuse-based economy, reuse targets must be clearly prioritized above downstream measures, and coupled with an overall reduction in plastic use and production as the north star. The negative impacts of plastic across its lifecycle and on human health, must be heavily factored into the development of the P2 plans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Brandon Wei, Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:brandon.wei@greenpeace.org\">brandon.wei@greenpeace.org<\/a>; +1 778 772-6138<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-58402 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/act\/expand-the-single-use-plastics-ban\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2023\/05\/f6c5c589-gp0stsgbk_web_size.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2023\/05\/f6c5c589-gp0stsgbk_web_size-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2023\/05\/f6c5c589-gp0stsgbk_web_size-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2023\/05\/f6c5c589-gp0stsgbk_web_size-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2023\/05\/f6c5c589-gp0stsgbk_web_size.jpg 800w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"plastic pollution\" title=\"plastic pollution\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/act\/expand-the-single-use-plastics-ban\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTell Canada to expand the ban on single-use plastics\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Canada&#8217;s single-use plastic ban only covers 3% of plastic waste. We need a ban list that matches the scale of the waste and pollution crisis! <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t                                    <a\n                        class=\"btn btn-primary\"\n                        data-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n                        data-ga-action=\"Call to Action\"\n                        data-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/act\/expand-the-single-use-plastics-ban\/\"\n                        \n                    >\n                        Take action\n                    <\/a>\n                \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government\u2019s announcement targets plastic packaging that comes into direct contact with food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":55568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"Plastic Free Future","p4_local_project":"plastic.supban","p4_basket_name":"Plastics","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,71],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-60187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-sustainably","tag-consumption","tag-plastic","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60187","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60189,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60187\/revisions\/60189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60187"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=60187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}