A new bylaw in the works for Calgary could reduce the quantity of single-use products going to landfill by 2024. The bylaw would affect plastic bags, straws, stir sticks, and more.

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The City of Calgary is looking at changes that they say will reduce the amount of single-use products that end up in its landfills.

On Tuesday, a council committee supported a proposed bylaw that would have retailers charge for bags which are either made of paper or are reusable as a way of cutting down how many of them wind up in landfills.

The city said millions of plastic bags and plastic utensils land in its landfills every week.

It’s a move that would see the city take a similar approach to a regulation that the federal government passed in June of this year.

“Where the federal government is leading, we are responding,” said Ward 11 Coun. Kourtney Penner.

“We are taking those steps towards our own waste reduction strategy, again, for solutions that work for Calgarians and that work in tandem with what the federal government is pushing … but being responsive to Calgarians and the business community.”

In June, the federal government announced it will ban some single-use plastic items in an effort to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030. But only a limited number of products fall under the ban and some of the prohibitions don’t kick in until 2025.

Preview text: Omar Sherif, CBC News, Sep 28, 2022

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