By Dave Branco

Plastic

Plastic Quesnel

Jun 24, 2022 | 2:25 PM

QUESNEL – This was the word from federal Environment Minister Steven Gill-bow earlier this week. A ban on a whole host of single-use plastics. Plastic grocery bags, plastic cutlery, straws, ring carriers and stir sticks.

Council for the City of Quesnel, just days before the federal announcement, was challenged to being in a plastics ban, something Mitch Vik has done in his store, K Max Games and Video, for years,

He says at the time, it was a phased-in approach and many of his customers were tickled by the move.

“Honestly, there was nothing negative,” he says about the move ten years ago, adding it was a progressive move.

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The ban on the production of things like plastic shopping bags and plastic cutlery will kick in this coming December and Vik believes, for many businesses, it will a transitional thing to eliminate the use of certain plastics.

While the City of Quesnel will be looking at the logistics of a City-wide ban, Vik feels it’s eventually going to be a reality.