City of Edmonton asking for feedback on single-use bylaw
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Edmontonians have had mixed feelings and now the city is asking people to share their thoughts officially. The findings of a survey could bring some changes.
It’s been a year and a half since the City of Edmonton introduced its single-use bylaw, which prohibits handing out plastic shopping bags and other single-use items and introduced a fee for things like paper bags at restaurants.
Edmontonians have had mixed feelings over the changes and now the city is asking them to share their thoughts officially.
The findings of the survey (link below) could bring about changes.
Forgetting your reusable bag typically means adding on another fee, but that bylaw is getting a second look.
“If it’s effective we carry on with it. If it’s not effective we modify it to make some changes,” said Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi.
On July 1st, 2023, the City of Edmonton introduced the single-use item reduction bylaw.
The goal is to lower the number of single-use items handed out in the city, not necessarily to get rid of plastic items for non-plastic.
The bylaw also introduced the bag fee. That fee was upped this past summer, stores must charge 25 cents for paper bags and $2 for reusable ones.
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