In our past blogs, we have shared news regarding the effort to ban certain plastics. This restriction on plastics in Canada was made official and announced in a June 20, 2022, News Release. A group of manufacturing companies is seeking to overturn this ban. According to an article in Plastics News, “A coalition of plastics companies has sued to block Canada’s ban on six single-use plastic products, challenging Ottawa’s decision to declare them ‘toxic’ and...
Read MorePlastics Ban Ruled as “Unreasonable and Unconstitutional”
In August 2022, we began to report that the Federal Ban on certain plastics was facing legal challenges. Ultimately, this case wound up in Federal Court. Plaintiffs (Responsible Plastic Use Coalition, Dow Chemical of Canada, Imperial Oil, and Nova Chemicals) argued that the Order designating plastics as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) was unconstitutional. On November 16, 2023, the Federal Court of Canada released its decision in Responsible...
Read MorePFOS Still Detected and Update on Litigation over Plastics Ban
Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) said that perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) is still leaching from the Hamilton International Airport Property above the threshold numbers. PFOS is one of the thousands of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that have been found around the world that pose potential harm to human health and environment. PFOS at Hamilton Airport Health Canada states that the maximum acceptable concentration for PFOS...
Read MorePlastics Ban, Environmental Enforcement, and Algae Blooms
Below, we look at a few recent environmental developments (federal and provincial). In our blogs, we often refer back to previous blogs we have written on a similar topic. If you would like to look for a specific topic that we may have covered in a past blog, you can use the search function, which is on the right-hand side of our blog page. Certain Plastics Banned in Canada As mentioned in our January 12, 2022, blog (The Complexity of Canada’s Plastics Ban), the Canadian...
Read MoreThe Complexity of Canada’s Plastics Ban
The national ban on single use plastics (i.e., plastics that will not be recycled) was supposed to have taken place in 2021. That did not happen, perhaps owed to the ongoing global battle with the pandemic. However, on December 21, 2021, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Health announced draft regulations under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) banning certain single-use plastics deemed to be harmful. What paved the way...
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