{"id":7864,"date":"2019-03-12T16:54:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:28:00","slug":"statement-greenpeace-applauds-ontario-ndps-proposed-bill-to-ban-single-use-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/7864\/statement-greenpeace-applauds-ontario-ndps-proposed-bill-to-ban-single-use-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT: Greenpeace applauds Ontario NDP\u2019s proposed bill to ban single-use plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><b>MONTR\u00c9AL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) \u2013 In response to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariondp.ca\/news\/ndp-environment-critic-lays-out-bill-ban-single-use-plastics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ontario NDP\u2019s proposed private member&#8217;s bill<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announced today calling for a ban of single-use plastics in Ontario, Sarah King, Head of Greenpeace Canada\u2019s Oceans &amp; Plastics Campaign, said:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Ontario NDP is proposing the sort of bold action that is required to reduce plastic pollution at the source: banning throwaway plastics. This is a powerful bill that recognizes the danger of plastic pollution both to our environment, to our Great Lakes and to our health and sets out real measures and a clear timeline to eliminate single-use plastics. Greenpeace and thousands of Canadians strongly support the NDP\u2019s call to the Ontario government to ban various problematic and unnecessary single-use plastics starting in 2020, working towards a full ban by 2025.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its announcement, the NDP acknowledges that recycling alone would never be enough to solve the plastic pollution crisis, that Canada must move away from single-use plastics, and that all levels of government must stop allowing plastic producers to create single-use plastics that continue to fill up landfills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe real litter bugs are not the people of Ontario but the corporations who flood our lives with single-use products. To end the flow of plastic waste into our environment, we need to stop the production and sale of these products. This bill sets a clear agenda towards achieving this and tackling plastic pollution at the source,\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, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:pduchast@greenpeace.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pduchast@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; + 1 (514) 929-8227 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MONTR\u00c9AL) \u2013 In response to the Ontario NDP\u2019s proposed private member&#8217;s bill announced today calling for a ban of single-use plastics in Ontario, Sarah King, Head of Greenpeace Canada\u2019s Oceans&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":[14],"class_list":["post-7864","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\/7864","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=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7866,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions\/7866"}],"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=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}