1. Plastic tax: paying for a shopping bag.
- Author
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Patriquin, Martin
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ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *PLASTIC bags & the environment , *CANADIANS , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy laws , *POLITICAL participation - Abstract
The article focuses on the environmental hazards of plastic bags. The author reports that according to environmentalists, because plastic bags are made from oil, they choke both landfills and wildlife. Jacques Lalonde, a Montreal translator who started an online petition and collected 50,000 signatures, urged the government to consider a tax on each of the plastic bags used by Canadians every year. Liberal Environment Minister Line Beauchamp is weighing the idea.
- Published
- 2007