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The industry's trade association, the Retail Council of Canada, said the new policy "unfortunately" targets large grocers exclusively.

"Which is impractical, as Canadian retailers lack direct control and influence over the global supply chain," said Michelle Wasylyshen, the council's national spokesperson.

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Are people mad about this?

I rather my egg cartons come in recyclable cardboard than the weird ass plastic thing. Milk used to come in glass bottles. Peanut butter and jam too. Theres absolutely no fucking reason to put bananas in a plastic Ziploc bag.

Y'all want more microplastics?

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Completely forgot that you guys have literal milk bags. lol
I don't think I've ever seen an egg carton that isn't out of recycled paper though. For glass stuff there's at least an argument to be made about weight, but in regards to drinking water it should ideally be unnecessary anyway through clean tap water.

[–] EhForumUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Completely forgot that you guys have literal milk bags. lol

Packaged together in another plastic bag, then placed in yet another plastic bag at checkout. It is the Russian doll of consumer packaging.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

What's the second plastic bag for? On checkouts we only have paper bags. At least for like throwaway ones.

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