{"id":62273,"date":"2018-03-09T00:32:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=62273"},"modified":"2018-03-09T00:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:32:23","slug":"canada-push-ambitious-plastics-charter-g7-environment-minister-mckenna-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/canada-push-ambitious-plastics-charter-g7-environment-minister-mckenna-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to Push for Ambitious &#8216;Plastics Charter&#8217; at G7, Environment Minister McKenna Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cWe could build on goals like having 100 per cent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging,\u201d the environment minister said from an oceans summit in Mexico.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Canada will use its presidency of the G7 to try to persuade the world\u2019s richest and most industrialized countries to adopt ambitious goals for plastics recycling and waste reduction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking at a zero-plastics-waste charter,\u201d Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Wednesday from Cancun, Mexico, where she was at an international conference on the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a plastics charter was first broached by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this year. The G7 is to meet in Quebec in June.<\/p>\n<p>McKenna said a plastics charter could go further than the European Union\u2019s plan to recycle at least half of its plastic packaging by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could build on goals like having 100 per cent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging,\u201d she said in a telephone interview with The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada will use its presidency of the G7 to try to persuade the world\u2019s richest and most industrialized countries to adopt ambitious goals for plastics recycling and waste reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":59604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Canada to Push for Ambitious &#039;Plastics Charter&#039; 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