Taking A Cue From EU, Canada Plans To Ban Some Single Use Plastics

CleanTechnica
By Steve HanleyJun 11, 2019, 10:37 am578 ptsHot
Plastic trash used to be a simple problem. Bundle it up, put it on a freighter, and ship it off to China. That worked really well until China stopped allowing plastic waste into the country. All of sudden, the countries producing all that trash had no idea what to do with it

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