[mynegation]

It is not dumb. It is about setting an example.

We cannot fix everything everywhere, but we can move the needle. Maybe a youth living near one of those 10 rivers, reading about Canada doing it, will become a member of parliament or a minister and will do something about it. Or not. Maybe here in Canada out of necessity we come up with smart solutions to replaces single use plastics that can be copied all over the world. Or not.

But what we can do, we shall, and as a Canadian, I am fully behind this decision.

[gruez]

>We cannot fix everything everywhere, but we can move the needle. Maybe a youth living near one of those 10 rivers, reading about Canada doing it, will become a member of parliament or a minister and will do something about it.

This kind of attitude only makes sense if it doesn't cost anything. Doubling our CO2 usage (assuming we switched to paper bags)[1], just so we can virtue signal to kids in third world countries is asinine.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[zaarn]

Get a cloth bag instead of a paper bag and you'll get something that will out life the single-use bag and be more environmentally friendly after using it about 100 times.

Doubling CO2 usage is only true if things remain single-use.

[beprogrammed]

Trees are a renewable resource, trees pull carbon during growth, paper is recyclable seems paper bags are pretty good.

[lopmotr]

Are you sure there isn't a cheaper way to get the same effect? Doing a giant useless action just to set an example to others for whom it's not so useless doesn't seem like the obvious first choice.

[therealdrag0]

We’ve been setting an Example of basic garbage management practices for some time.

[vimy]

Instead of setting an example we could just pay for waste management programs in Asia and Africa and be done with it. Would be cheaper, faster and more convenient than the current ban all plastics movement.