The industry’s trade association, the Retail Council of Canada, said the new policy “unfortunately” targets large grocers exclusively.
“Which is impractical, as Canadian retailers lack direct control and influence over the global supply chain,” said Michelle Wasylyshen, the council’s national spokesperson.
“All garbage truck drivers should be banned from dumping plastic in the dump!”
“All supermarket should sell a thicker plastic in place of thin plastic bags and call it reusable!”
“All candy company should sell two candy in one package for the environment conscious consumers with a tag line ‘slash your candy wrapper use in half’”
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“All garbage truck drivers should be banned from dumping plastic in the dump!”
“All supermarket should sell a thicker plastic in place of thin plastic bags and call it reusable!”
“All candy company should sell two candy in one package for the environment conscious consumers with a tag line ‘slash your candy wrapper use in half’”