Liberal
- Require that plastic packaging contain 50% recycled content by 2030.
- Work w/ provinces & territories on recycling targets for plastic bottles.
- Prohibit using the ♲ symbol on a product unless 80% of recycling facilities accept it.
- Require producers to report the amount, type, & end-of-life management of plastics.
- Implement right-to-repair & encourage with a tax credit.
- Create a No-Waste Food Fund.
Require that all plastic packaging in Canada contain at least 50% recycled content by 2030.
Accelerate the implementation of our zero plastic waste action plan, in partnership with provinces and territories, and ensure Canada’s actions are consistent with other leading jurisdictions.
Continue to work with provinces and territories to ensure that it’s producers, not taxpayers, who are responsible for the cost of managing their plastic waste.
Work with provinces and territories to implement and enforce an ambitious recycling target for plastic beverage bottles.
Strengthen federal procurement practices to prioritize reusable and recyclable products and support our goal of zero plastic waste.
Introduce labelling rules that prohibit the use of the chasing-arrows symbol unless 80% of Canada’s recycling facilities accept and have reliable end markets for these products.
Support provincial and territorial producer responsibility efforts by establishing a federal public registry and require producers to annually report the amount, type, and end-of-life management for plastics in the Canadian economy.
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Create a new $100 million infrastructure and innovation fund over the next 5 years that will scale-up and commercialize made-in-Canada technologies and solutions for the reuse and recycling of plastics.
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Accelerate the global shift to a circular economy as host of this year’s World Circular Economy Forum.
Build on the Ocean Plastics Charter by working with leading countries on the development of a new global agreement on plastics.
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Implement a “right to repair” to extend the life of home appliances, particularly electronics, by requiring manufacturers to supply repair manuals and spare parts and facilitate their replication after the part is no longer produced.
Introduce a new 15% tax credit to cover the cost of home appliance repairs performed by technicians (up to $500).
Introduce a bill that includes provisions to better inform citizens of the environmental impacts of consumer products.
Require businesses to inform Canadians of the environmental impacts of consumer products.
Amend the Copyright Act to ensure that its provisions cannot prevent the repair of digital devices and systems, even when nothing is being copied or distributed.
— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02
Create a new No-Waste Food Fund to help build a circular food economy in Canada where no food is wasted, from farm to table. The fund will help all players along the food supply chain to commercialize and adopt ways to eliminate, reduce, or repurpose food waste. We will continue to partner with, and support, community-based food security organizations to make sure all Canadians have access to healthy food.
— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02