Everyday Use

THE STORY OF PLASTIC
IN CANADA, PART 4

Now let's take a walk down our local grocery store aisle where plastic products are wrapped around your food.

Plastic has become deeply intertwined in our day-to-day life. But nowhere is plastic more obvious than the grocery store.

More than one-third of the 6 million tonnes of plastic put on the market every year in Canada is packaging.

Plastic packaging can expose us to chemicals that affect our health.

It is also a source of microplastic exposure.

Infants and toddlers are most at risk from these chemicals and yet most products in the baby food aisles are packaged in plastic.

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Plastic has become deeply intertwined in our day-to-day life. But nowhere is plastic more obvious than the grocery store.

More than one-third of the 6 million tonnes of plastic put on the market every year in Canada is packaging.

Plastic packaging can expose us to chemicals that affect our health.

It is also a source of microplastic exposure.

Infants and toddlers are most at risk from these chemicals and yet most products in the baby food aisles are packaged in plastic.

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Grocery packaging is a significant source of plastic pollution and waste, including a growing amount of plastics that cannot be recycled. The big grocery chains need to have an effective plan in place to reduce plastic packaging.

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GROCERY STORES MUST DO BETTER: PLASTIC HAS TAKEN OVER

Urge big grocery chains to phase out unnecessary single-use plastics and to scale up their reusable and refillable packaging systems.

Disposal

The story of plastic
in Canada, Part 5

PART 1

Extraction of
Oil and Gas
PART 2

Pipelines
PART 3

Refining and
Manufacturing
PART 4

Everyday Use
PART 5

Disposal
PART 6

Microplastics

The Story OF

Plastic In Canada

When people think of plastic pollution, they tend to think of litter and landfills or the ocean garbage patches. But plastic pollution begins long before the landfill and continues long after. Every single stage of the lifecycle of plastic, from the extraction of oil and gas to the disposal of plastic waste, causes harm to our environment and our health. It's time to look at the big picture.

 

Every single stage of the lifecycle of plastic, from the extraction of oil and gas to the disposal of plastic waste, causes harm to our environment and our health. It's time to look at the big picture.

 

This is the life cycle of plastic-from cradle to grave.

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