Canada must do more to control plastic waste exports, Environment Minister says
CTV
In the year since new rules to slow global exports of plastic waste took effect, Canada's shipments rose by more than 13 per cent, and most of it is going to the United States with no knowledge of where it ultimately ends up.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said that kind of lackadaisical approach to exporting plastic waste has to stop.
"I'm very worried about that and I think we clearly have to do better," Guilbeault said in an interview.
"If we're shipping plastics that are aimed at recycling, we better make sure that that's what happens. And frankly, right now, it's not clear to me that is always the case and in fact there's been a number of instances where it's not."
Guilbeault said he is talking to his officials about what can be done to fix the problem "because right now we're not doing a very good job."
