Toronto city council has halted its contentious ban on plastic shopping bags, handing a victory to Rob Ford at what could be his last meeting as mayor. Councillors voted Wednesday to kill the proposed bylaw that would have enforced the ban beginning Jan. 1. “We’ve made a decision. There is no ban on bags,” Councillor […]
Packaging industry bodies have welcomed the long-awaited report from the Environment Agency, entitled Life Assessment of Supermarket Carrier Bags. It has found that ordinary high density polythene bags used by retailers are greener than supposedly low impact choices. The report highlighted that HDPE bags are, for each use, almost 200 times less damaging to the […]
1: EXPERT VIEWS AND THE SCIENCE THAT GETS IN THE WAY OF SPIN The Government is irresponsible to jump on a bandwagon that has no base in scientific evidence. This is one of many examples where you get bad science leading to bad decisions which are counter-productive. Attacking plastic bags makes people feel good but […]
