@ISIDEWITHQuestionsenvironmentStarted 8yrs agoActive 3 days ago

Should disposable products (such as plastic cups, plates, and cutlery) that contain less than 50% of biodegradable material be banned?

In 2016, France became the first country to ban the sale of plastic disposable products that contain less than 50% of biodegradable material and in 2017, India passed a law banning all plastic disposable plastic products.

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32%
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66%
Yes
23%
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2%
Yes, and ban all disposable products that are not made of at least 75% of biodegradable material
6%
No, but increase tax incentives for companies that make biodegradable products
4%
No, increase consumer incentives to recycle these products instead

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 @8KQL6XNfrom British Columbia  answered…4yrs4Y

I agree to ban all disposable products that are not made of at least 75% of biodegradable material but also fix our recycling programs and GET HONEST about what Canada REALLY IS RECYCLING!! Programs for residential sorting at the curbside, THEN fines to loose individuals who don't sort properly

 @B42YTG4from Alberta  answered…1wk1W

Yes where suitable alternatives exist, and make it illegal for registered businesses to provide noncompostable products for any less than their procurement costs.

 @B422B6Dfrom Ontario  answered…1wk1W

No because people can keep the plastic cutlery they get from places wash them in the dishwasher and reuse them over and over.

 @B3TR8TFfrom Ontario  answered…2wks2W

All single use products should be banned. They should NOT be recommending biodegradable materials as that is not environmentally friendly.

 @B3P2J3Mfrom British Columbia  answered…3wks3W

I think that you should discourage products with less biodegradable materials, and add a higher cost on those, while reducing prices on more biodegradable products.

 @B3N9LZBfrom Ontario  answered…3wks3W

Yes, but since that makes up less than 1% of plastic polluting the oceans we should really be focusing on fishing nets which are the number one thing polluting our oceans

 @B3FD3S3from Ontario  answered…4wks4W

We should pour more money into researching ways to actually responsibly manage and recycle materials that are damaging our environment

 @B3DJY38from Ontario  answered…4wks4W

No, increase consumer incentive to recycle! But keep in mind that it's a generational cycle. It's contradictory. If you eliminate plastic products and increase paper products, the "tree huggers" complain. Benefits of disposable plastic products outweigh the destruction of our forests. It's so inconvenient to bring our own biodegradable bags, which cannot be used for anything else. Plastic garbage bags are used to line my garbage cans. I now have to buy plastic bags so I'm not really saving the environment am I? I'm now paying for plastic bags for my garbage cans and I'm paying for biodegradable bags for my purchases. It's ridiculous! It's causing more garbage not less.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…8mos8MO

Biden retaliated against a Dem who called for him to step aside

Rep. Hillary Scholten, a first-term Democrat who flipped a traditionally Republican seat in 2022, was booted last week from from a coordinated effort between the the Biden campaign and the state party to elect candidates up and down the ticket, according to four people with knowledge of the situation, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly about private discussions.It happened soon after she called for Biden to step aside, those people said, which angered many Democrats behind the scenes. The Biden campaign was contacted by POLITICO Wednesday evening; Scholten was reinstated Thursday morning.“Rep. Scholten is welcome at the coordinated campaign and we look forward to campaigning with her this fall,” said Mia Ehrenberg, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, when asked about Scholten’s removal from the coordinated campaign.The initial decision to remove Scholten from the joint effort — which would have essentially cut her off from the combined field effort between the presidential, Senate and House races — came from the Michigan state party, according to two people familiar with the discussions. If she had remained excluded from the coordinated effort, it could’ve meant that when Democratic organizers were campaigning in her district, they would tout Biden and the party’s Senate nominee — but not Scholten.The Michigan Democratic Party declined to comment. But two people familiar with discussions said Scholten had specifically infuriated state leaders when she spoke out against Biden — on the same day that the president was already visiting Michigan — without informing them of her plans, according to the two people.“This decision was made in Wilmington, full stop,” a Democratic operative who’s worked on competitive House races said. “Punishing her isn’t just petty and vindictive, it’s self-defeating.”An official for the Biden campaign denied that: “This did not come from Wilmington.”

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