{"id":7450,"date":"2019-02-12T09:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:28:06","slug":"statement-greenpeace-supports-ndps-call-to-feds-to-ban-single-use-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/story\/7450\/statement-greenpeace-supports-ndps-call-to-feds-to-ban-single-use-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Greenpeace supports NDP\u2019s call to feds to ban single-use plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(MONTR\u00c9AL)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 In response to the NDP\u2019s Waste Reduction Strategy announcement today calling for a ban of single-use plastics across Canada by 2022, a commitment for plastic packaging reduction targets, and strong, enforceable Extended Producer Responsibility legislation that holds companies accountable, Sarah King, Head of Greenpeace Canada&#8217;s Oceans &amp; Plastics Campaign, said: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The NDP has proposed the sort of bold action that is required to reduce plastic pollution at the source. This is a powerful statement with a clear vision that recognizes the danger of plastic pollution both to our environment and to our health and sets out real measures to eliminate single-use plastics at the source. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenpeace and thousands of Canadians strongly support the NDP\u2019s call to the federal government to ban various problematic and unnecessary single-use plastics by 2022.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its announcement, the NDP acknowledges that recycling alone would never be enough to solve the plastic pollution crisis, and that Canada must move away from single-use plastics. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenpeace is calling on Minister McKenna to incorporate these measures into Canada\u2019s National Zero Plastic Waste Strategy and to listen to the growing movement of people across Canada who want urgent action to combat the massive plastic waste and pollution crisis in Canada and around the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMcKenna\u2019s current waste reduction approach totally ignores the role that bans must play in tackling this global crisis. P<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lastics production is forecast to double over the next 20 years<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The Liberal\u2019s focus on increased recycling and continued use of plastic products fails to recognize that there is simply too much plastic that has been produced and that continues to be churned out. It\u2019s time for the Liberal government to follow the leadership of other national governments, and now the NDP, and adopt a strong national plastic strategy that was promised to Canadians, before the next election campaign swamps us with new promises<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d added King.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-30-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>For more information, please contact:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philippa Duchastel de Montrouge, Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada, pduchast@greenpeace.org; +1 (514) 929-8227<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MONTR\u00c9AL) \u2013 In response to the NDP\u2019s Waste Reduction Strategy announcement today calling for a ban of single-use plastics across Canada by 2022, a commitment for plastic packaging reduction targets,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":6163,"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":[16],"class_list":["post-7450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-sustainably","tag-plastic","p4-page-type-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7457,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions\/7457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=7450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}