Karen Wirsig
Senior Program Manager, Plastics
Karen has worked as a journalist and as a labour and community organizer. She has participated in her downtown Toronto housing co-operative for more than 20 years. An active transportation enthusiast who favours walking, cycling, and public transit, Karen has never owned a car. She is a voracious reader and has spent her adult life trying to unlearn the common belief that humans should strive for domination over each other, over other animals, and over nature itself. She’s passionate about helping to get plastics out of the environment.
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Feb 14, 2022
Canada Needs a Real Plan – And Fast – To Get To Zero Plastic Waste by 2030
Environmental Defence has partnered with more than 50 environmental groups to call on the federal…
Jan 19, 2022
Reusable Containers and Packaging are Crucial to Ending Plastic Pollution
Canada is at a watershed moment in the fight against plastic pollution. The government has…
Jan 12, 2022
Government Must Ban Harmful Single-Use Plastics Now, Not in Two Years
The government finally posted draft regulations to ban six single-use plastics over the holidays. Unfortunately…
Nov 15, 2021
Big Plastic is suing the federal government for moving to regulate plastics, including a plan…
Oct 29, 2021
Canada’s new Environment Minister must clean up the plastic mess, and quick
Canada’s new environment minister must clean up the plastic mess, and quick Steven Guilbeault has…
Oct 22, 2021
Only 1 per cent of flexible plastic packaging (eg. bags, films and pouches) is recycled…
Sep 01, 2021
We’re on track to see plastic outweigh fish in our oceans by 2050. The only…
Aug 21, 2021
The plastic blame game is getting old. Time to hold producers responsible.
The myth that plastic pollution would end if we just stopped littering and did a…
Jul 13, 2021
Push back against Canada’s biggest plastic polluters this Plastic Free July
It’s the 10th anniversary of Plastic Free July and we’re marking it by turning our…
May 26, 2021
Three companies produce almost all of the plastic that is made in Canada: NOVA Chemicals,…