Calgary businesses and Alberta politicians are pressuring the federal government to exempt compostable checkout bags from its single-use plastic sales ban, which takes effect in December.
The Calgary Co-op is petitioning Ottawa to allow the use of the bags. The store's director of communications, Sage Pullen McIntosh, said they replaced all their plastic bags with an alternative that has a silky feel.
The store assumed, because the bags contain no plastics, that Ottawa would permit the bag as it phased out single-use plastic bags — a ban the store supports.to get Ottawa to reverse its decision. "And when these bags become litter, they pose a threat to wildlife and the environment just like conventional plastic checkout bags," Power said.
"To me, [the regulation] doesn't make sense. You can sell a compostable bag on the shelf, but you can't have it at the checkout," said Kendra Sozinho, the assistant store manager. "Imagine if we just replaced all that with so-called compostables. It would overflow all our organics programs, and we wouldn't have any room for actual organics," Wirsig said. "In the end, we would not have healthy, good soil amendment."
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