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Canada must join forces with allies to stop the pollution threatening our health and environment

  • As most of the world moves away from plastic, Canada must not lock into a bygone economy and industry.
Opinion | BY SEHJAL BHARGAVA, ANTHONY MERANTE, KAREN WIRSIG | August 18, 2025
Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong’s public art installation 'The Giant Plastic Trap' is pictured outside the fourth session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa on April 23, 2024. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Canada must join forces with allies to stop the pollution threatening our health and environment

Opinion | BY SEHJAL BHARGAVA, ANTHONY MERANTE, KAREN WIRSIG | August 18, 2025
  • As most of the world moves away from plastic, Canada must not lock into a bygone economy and industry.

Canada must join forces with allies to stop the pollution threatening our health and environment

Opinion | BY SEHJAL BHARGAVA, ANTHONY MERANTE, KAREN WIRSIG | August 18, 2025
  • As most of the world moves away from plastic, Canada must not lock into a bygone economy and industry.
Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong’s public art installation 'The Giant Plastic Trap' is pictured outside the fourth session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa on April 23, 2024. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Stop recycling failed ideas to manage plastic waste

  • Can you remember the last thing you bought that wasn’t made from, or packaged in, plastic? From double-wrapped cucumbers to throw-away coffee cups, it
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | October 19, 2022
Some of the so-called recycling imagined for the future would not turn plastic back into plastic, but rather into chemicals and fuel, an expensive, polluting and climate-warming strategy that should not be called recycling, writes Karen Wirsig. The Hill Times Photograph by Kristen Shane

Stop recycling failed ideas to manage plastic waste

Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | October 19, 2022
  • Can you remember the last thing you bought that wasn’t made from, or packaged in, plastic? From double-wrapped cucumbers to throw-away coffee cups, it

Stop recycling failed ideas to manage plastic waste

Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | October 19, 2022
  • Can you remember the last thing you bought that wasn’t made from, or packaged in, plastic? From double-wrapped cucumbers to throw-away coffee cups, it
Some of the so-called recycling imagined for the future would not turn plastic back into plastic, but rather into chemicals and fuel, an expensive, polluting and climate-warming strategy that should not be called recycling, writes Karen Wirsig. The Hill Times Photograph by Kristen Shane

The petrochemical industry’s ploy to stop the regulation of harmful plastics

  • The federal government has taken the important step of listing plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), a move
Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | June 21, 2021
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced next steps in the federal government's plan to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030 in October last year.

The petrochemical industry’s ploy to stop the regulation of harmful plastics

Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | June 21, 2021
  • The federal government has taken the important step of listing plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), a move

The petrochemical industry’s ploy to stop the regulation of harmful plastics

Opinion | BY KAREN WIRSIG | June 21, 2021
  • The federal government has taken the important step of listing plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), a move
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced next steps in the federal government's plan to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030 in October last year.
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