By Cheryl Jahn

Plastics Ban deadline has come

Jul 15, 2024 | 3:51 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Today is the absolute deadline for the use of plastic shopping bags. They will be banned for use in stores. It comes as deadlines in the Province’s Clean BC Action Plan are laid out.

“It means that businesses have to look at phasing out single-use plastic so there could be a higher cost associated with it,” explains Terri McClymont with REAPS. “The responsibility is on us. So taking your own silverware, taking your own straw, take in your own bags, maybe take your own containers.”

Other deadlines include the ban on the use of cellophane by July 1st, 2028 and the use of styrofoam by July 1st, 2030.

“So something like a cling wrap that you might see overtop of your meat products with the Styrofoam container. I’m really interesting to see how we’re going to have our fresh meats because we’re not going by 2030, sorry, they’re not going to have Styrofoam take-out containers where your meat is.”

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