e-2460 (Environment)
- Keywords
- Plastics
- Pollution
- Tobacco products
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
- Canada sells twenty-seven billion cigarettes annually;
- Tobacco pollution is the number one form of litter contaminating our eco-systems;
- Cigarette butts are a plastic product that significantly contributes to pollution in soil, waterways and beaches, and impacts the health of fish and other wildlife, as well as the safety of the food supply for humans;
- Plastic cigar tips, commonly sold and used with cigarillos and small cigars, are also among the most littered objects;
- We have Deposit/Return and Environmental Handling Fee models already in practice;
- There is already a processor that is recycling cigarette butts and cigar tips;
- An Environmental Handling Fee on tobacco products will create jobs and generate one billion dollars of revenue; and
- Efforts to prevent litter of cigarette filters by educating consumers have failed.
- Open for signature
- July 8, 2020, at 5:39 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- November 5, 2020, at 5:39 p.m. (EDT)