Li xiao reports (Bcbay.com) in Vancouver harbor: on Monday(on June 10th), Prime Minister Trudeau announced officially: Canada will ban single-use plastic products from 2021. Including plastic straws, cotton swabs, beverage mixers, plates, tableware, balloon sticks and other plastic products. He made the announcement at the Gault Nature Reserve in Mont st-hilaire outskirts of Montreal.
Trudeau: as a father, it's hard to explain
Trudeau said: to be honest, as a father, explaining the problem of plastic to my children is quite difficult. How do you explain the plastic bags stuffed into the stomachs of dead whales that washed ashore around the world
As parents, we've reached a place when we take our kids to the beach where we have to find that is not full of straws, glue, and cans.This is a problem that we have to dispose.
Canada will hold a general election in October. However, climate change and pollution are expected to be top concerns on the campaign trail.
Plastic bags, water bottles, straws, cutlery, fast food boxes and foaming cups are all banned.
According to reported that the Canadian government's list of banned plastic products has not been finalized to decide.
But regarding a government source said the banned items would include single-use plastic bags, plastic water bottles, plastic straws, plastic tableware, beverage mixers, fast-food containers and cups made of foamed polystyrene. Trudeau said the federal government was working on a list of plastics that should be banned, following the model of the European Union, which voted in March to ban products made of oxidized degradable plastics, such as bags. He also said the federal government will require companies that make and sell plastic products to take responsibility for recycling plastic garbage bag. According to Canada's department of environment and climate change. Canadians throw away more than 34 million plastic bags a day, often ending up in landfills that can take up to 1,000 years to rot. Around the world, more than 30 countries have banned some single-use plastics, including France, India and Italy, even some American states, including New York and California.
The food chain is polluted. The water you drink and the fish you eat all have plastic.
In fact, we're now living on a plastic planet. Walking along the beach, you expect to see laid-back turtles, clear water and coconut trees? As a matter of fact, plastic slippers, mineral water bottles, production molds that come up again and again for the
According to the Guardian, around a million plastic bottles of drinks are bought around the world every minute.
Each year, humans produce 288 million tons of plastic. And these plastic things don't break down. One piece of plastic that we use every day, every time, every 10 seconds, will stay on this planet forever. A whale has become stranded off the coast of Norway in 2016. Scientists found more than 30 whales with his internal organs stuffed in plastic bags. Some of it, apparently comes from British waters. A complete straw was stuck tightly in the turtle's nostrils, and it took eight minutes to pull it out by workers.
Some experts warn that some plastics have entered the human food chain.
A German study found that all 24 types of beer in the country contained artificial fibers and fragments
In August 2016, a university of Plymouth study found that one-third of fishes was caught in the UK, including cod, haddock, mackerel and shellfish all contained plastic.
Laura McDonnell, a biologist at McGill university in Canada whose main area of research is aquatic animal physiology, is arguably the group of scientists who know the most about fish. But the expert recently said she decided to stop eating fish. “fish eat plastic, we eat fish,” she said. So eating fish is the same as eating plastic?
Scientists at Ghent university in Belgium seem to have confirmed the opinion.They recently calculated that people who eat seafood may ingest up to 11,000 microplastics every year. In Canada, many people are accustomed to drinking water directly from tap. In people's mind, it seems to be a symbol of safety and quality. But is that really the case?
Plastic is in more than 80% 0f TAPWATER around the world and could penetrate organs, scientists warn
The nonprofit Orb Media commissioned the university of Minnesota school of public health to test 159 samples of drinking water collected in 12 countries, and found that 83 percent of the samples contained plastic fibers, the Guardian reported. It can be said that the drinking water in Europe, America and Asia generally contains plastic particles.
To many people's surprise, the highest pollution rate was found in the United States, up to 94%, per 500 ml of water have an average of 4.8 microplastics fiber. Scientists pointed that tiny plastic particles could penetrate human organs and even every cell. And that is really worrying. In addition, microplastics can attract bacteria in sewers. Some studies have shown that on plastic particles have more harmful pathogens downstream of sewage plants.
Experts said: the plastic particles are only 10 microns in diameter and are unlikely to be filtered by water filtration systems. Microplastics can come from many sources, including cosmetics and clothing. For instance, some of Skin cleanser products for girls contains "arenaceous" , it is plastic microparticle. Microplastics can also come from debris from wear and tear on clothing. Research shows that the washing machine releases 700,000 fibers per wash. So we throw away the plastic garbage not only end up drowning us, but also entering our bodies. It can be said that the toxins of plastic waste flow straight up the food chain, and at the top of the food chain, we seem to become a container of toxins. Our bodies are flooded with chemicals every day
Sherri Marson, a plastic pollution expert at the State University of New York, went further warning that pollution of natural resources often affects the whole body. If the water is polluted, other resources such as land and air are not immune
How terrible it is! Hopefully the plastic ban will help Canadians slowly change the world.
