e-2958 (Environment)
- Keywords
- Ban
- Bottled water and water bottles
- Plastics
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- The Liberal Government campaigned on a promise to ban some single use plastics;
- By declaring plastic as a toxic substance, they have taken a bold step in the fight against our addiction to plastic;
- We applaud these measures; however, they do not go far enough;
- The energy needed to make bottled water is up to 2000 times the energy needed for the equivalent volume of tap water;
- It takes more water to create the plastic bottle than the water bottle will actually hold. (Gleick, P.H. and Cooley, H.S. “Energy implications of bottled water.” (Environmental Research Letters 4 (2009)) ;
- Water bottlers have zero responsibility when it comes to the waste their bottles create;
- Every human is ingesting nearly 2000 particles of plastic a week, five grams of plastics, the equivalent of one plastic credit card;
- More than half the plastic on Earth has been created since 2002, and it’s on pace to double by 2030 (Planet Plastic, Rolling Stone, March 3,2020);
- A landmark study in the journal Science Advances found that 91% of the 6.3 trillion kilograms of plastic waste has never been recycled, not even once;
- Unlike aluminum, which can be recycled again and again, plastic degrades in reprocessing;
- Recycling has a limited value and we cannot rely on it as a solution; and
- In Ontario alone, one billion plastic water bottles are sent to landfill every year (Environmental Defence).
- Open for signature
- November 5, 2020, at 4:19 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- March 5, 2021, at 4:19 p.m. (EDT)
Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.
Province / Territory | Signatures |
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Alberta | 120 |
British Columbia | 391 |
Manitoba | 38 |
New Brunswick | 9 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 15 |
Northwest Territories | 2 |
Nova Scotia | 31 |
Nunavut | 1 |
Ontario | 2599 |
Prince Edward Island | 9 |
Quebec | 206 |
Saskatchewan | 17 |
Yukon | 1 |