Plastic

CHARBONNEAU – Big Oil’s fix for declining fossil fuels: plastics

February 19, 2026 // 0 Comments

THE HOPES OF environmentalists to leave oil in the ground have been dashed. Big Oil is not going to let declining fossil fuel use get in the way of profits. The continued [Continue]

JOHNSON – The $2 reusable shopping bag is a mind-numbingly dense idea

July 24, 2024 // 3 Comments

A CULTURAL CHANGE has been in the works for a few years now, and has ramped up recently. We have all absorbed and altered our routines to acclimatize to this new reality. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Learning to live without plastic straws and grocery bags

February 20, 2024 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S AMAZING how we’re able to adapt to changes we insisted we’d never be able to adapt to. It took a few decades but we’re weaning [Continue]

COLLINS – Government needs to be a lot tougher on plastics

February 3, 2023 // 0 Comments

WE HAVE BEEN SO AFRAID to tackle climate change issues we’ve let things get to a crisis stage. One of the worst examples involves our use of plastics. Decades ago, we [Continue]

SUZUKI – Canada’s plastics ban is a good start but we need to go further

June 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

MOST OF US have seen images of sea turtles malformed by plastic six-pack rings, dead birds with stomachs full of debris, animals smothered by plastic bags… Our excessive [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Only bad thing about new plastics ban is that it took so long

June 28, 2022 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ANYONE WHO GOES OUT to a coffee shop or restaurant knows that plastic straws and stir sticks are out, paper straws and wood stir sticks are [Continue]