OTTAWA — More than two dozen plastic makers are asking the Federal Court to put an end to Ottawa's plan to ban several single-use plastic items but Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he’s confident the attempt will fail.
. It hopes to tear up the regulations enacting the ban and prevent the government from further regulating single-use plastics through the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, or CEPA. CEPA defines a substance as "toxic" if it can have "immediate or long-term harmful effect on the environment or its biological diversity."
In a written statement, Guilbeault said the plastics coalition can do whatever it wants in court but that he thinks they're going to lose. The assessment said macroplastics, which are pieces bigger than five millimetres, can cause physical harm to natural areas. Animals frequently eat or become entangled in plastic waste, causing injury and death.