LCBO Bans Plastic Bags
The power of the monopoly will be put to good use for the environment. After launching those annoyingly smaller sized plastic bags a couple of years ago for one- or two-bottle purchases (they couldn't be re-used for anything else) the LCBO has decided to bite the bullet and ban plastic outright.
The LCBO's action will take a hefty 80 million bags out of Canada's six billion plastic bags per year total, and will hopefully encourage other retailers to follow suit and drop the take-3,000-years-to-degrade bags. Read a summary here.
