Food in Canada: Collaborating and supporting Canada's Zero Plastic Waste Plan
April 24, 2024
Originally published in Food in Canada, April/May 2024
Collaborating and supporting Canada’s Zero Plastic Waste Plan
Carol Zweep
In the past several years, there have been numerous Canadian government initiatives to address plastic waste. The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) put forward a Canada-wide Strategy and Action Plan on Zero Plastic Waste in 2018 and 2019 that takes a circular economy approach to plastics. This plan was adopted by federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Keeping all plastics in the economy and out of the environment will involve activities such as prevention, collection, clean-up, and value recovery.