The Canadian plastic ban is summed up in nine words: no production, no import, no export.
Starting December 20, 2022, Canada begins to implement the strictest plastic ban. Why is it the strictest? The Canadian plastic ban is summed up in nine words: no production, no import, no export, including.
Starting in late 2022, Canada will officially ban companies from producing or importing single-use plastic bags and take-out containers.
No more sales of single-use plastic products in the territory from the end of 2023.
By the end of 2025, the export of single-use plastic products will be banned.
The ban was previously planned for 2021, but was delayed due to the impact of the Newcastle pneumonia outbreak. The reason why there will be no more sales at the end of 2023 is because the consumption of the previous inventory gives enough time. Canada's goal is to achieve "zero plastic in landfills, beaches, rivers, wetlands, and forests" by 2030, so that plastic disappears in nature.
Scope of the regulation.
The regulation prohibits the production, import and sale of six types of single-use plastic
Shopping bags are designed to carry goods purchased by businesses and are usually provided to customers at retail stores.
Knives including knives, forks, spoons, spoons, chopsticks
The utensils are designed to serve or transport ready-to-eat food and beverages and contain expanded polystyrene foam, extruded polystyrene foam, polyvinyl chloride, carbon black, and an oxo-degradable plastic. The following items only: flip-top containers, containers with lids, boxes, cups, plates, bowls.
Ring brackets are flexible and designed to wrap around beverage containers to carry them together
Stirring bar designed to stir or mix beverages or to prevent beverages from spilling out of the container's lid
Straws include straight drinking straws and flexible straws with a corrugated section that allows the straw to bend, packaged with beverage containers (juice boxes and pouches)
The regulations do not apply to plastic products as waste or in transit in Canada. Any person who manufactures, imports or sells (including providing free of charge) the six types of single-use plastics listed above is subject to the regulation
Ban Schedule
To enable the industry to adapt to these changes, these regulations will be implemented on a staggered schedule
Projects | Manufactured and imported for sale in Canada | Sales | Manufacturing, import and export sales |
Shopping bags, tableware, straws, cutlery, stirring sticks, straws | December 20, 2022 | December 20, 2023 | December 20, 2025 |
Ring Bracket | June 20, 2023 | June 20, 2024 | December 20, 2025 |
Flexible straws packaged in beverage containers | Not applicable | June 20, 2024 | December 20, 2025 |
