Public to speak to city council on Calgary’s single-use items bylaw
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While the federal government's ban focuses on certain single-use plastics, the City of Calgary bylaw takes aim at single-use items regardless of material.
Calgarians will have the chance Tuesday to speak to city council about a new bylaw aimed at reducing single-use items from local landfills.
In October, city council approved the creation of a bylaw to respond to the millions of single-use items, such as bags and utensils, that are thrown away in residential and commercial garbage every week.
That bylaw proposes a mandatory minimum fee for local businesses to charge $0.15 for paper bags and $1.00 for reusable bags.
Those minimum fees would increase to $0.25 per paper shopping bag and $2.00 per new reusable shopping bag after the first year the bylaw is implemented.
The bylaw will also make food ware accessories like forks, straws, stir sticks and napkins only available by customer request.
“This is about that collective effort towards a societal betterment,” Ward 11 Coun. Kourtney Penner said. “We’re reducing plastics which we know is good on many levels from pollution to emissions and production.”
The bylaw also includes a requirement that paper shopping bags contain at least 40 per cent recycled content.
It comes after a federal government ban on the manufacturing and importing of certain single-use plastics like checkout bags, cutlery, food service ware, stir sticks and straws took effect in December. A ban on the sale of those items will come into effect next year as part of the federal plan.
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