[All] House of Commons petition to include plastic water bottles in ban on certain plastic items

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In case you haven't signed this petition.

Dorothy Wilson
Communications Officer
Nith Valley EcoBoosters

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Mike Shackleford <mike.shackleford72 at gmail.com>
To: "yourstoprotect at glcserve.com" <yourstoprotect at glcserve.com>
Date: February 18, 2021 at 11:40 AM
Subject: [Yourstoprotect] The Last Hurrah

Hi Everyone,

The House of Commons petition initiated by Save Our Water to include
plastic water bottles in the Federal ban on certain plastic items that will
be enacted this year will end on March 5th, 2021.

We had hoped for a larger response to the petition. Consequently, we have
decided to distribute it one more time to people we felt would be
supportive of this action.

If you have already signed the petition, our apologies for the duplication
and our gratitude for doing so.

For those interested but have not signed yet we urge you to consider doing
so before March 5th.

Thank you.

Save Our Water




e-2958 (Environment)

   - Keywords
   - Ban
   <https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Search?View=D&Keyword=53715&category=All>
   - Bottled water and water bottles
   <https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Search?View=D&Keyword=38290&category=All>
   - Plastics
   <https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Search?View=D&Keyword=41493&category=All>

E-petition
Initiated by Michael Pride from Elora, Ontario

Original language of petition: English
Petition details
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:

   - The Liberal Government campaigned on a promise to ban some single use
   plastics;
   - By declaring plastic as a toxic substance, they have taken a bold step
   in the fight against our addiction to plastic;
   - We applaud these measures; however, they do not go far enough;
   - The energy needed to make bottled water is up to 2000 times the energy
   needed for the equivalent volume of tap water;
   - It takes more water to create the plastic bottle than the water bottle
   will actually hold. (Gleick, P.H. and Cooley, H.S. “Energy implications of
   bottled water.” (Environmental Research Letters 4 (2009)) ;
   - Water bottlers have zero responsibility when it comes to the waste
   their bottles create;
   - Every human is ingesting nearly 2000 particles of plastic a week, five
   grams of plastics, the equivalent of one plastic credit card;
   - More than half the plastic on Earth has been created since 2002, and
   it’s on pace to double by 2030 (Planet Plastic, Rolling Stone, March
   3,2020);
   - A landmark study in the journal Science Advances found that 91% of the
   6.3 trillion kilograms of plastic waste has never been recycled, not even
   once;
   - Unlike aluminum, which can be recycled again and again, plastic
   degrades in reprocessing;
   - Recycling has a limited value and we cannot rely on it as a solution;
   and
   - In Ontario alone, one billion plastic water bottles are sent to
   landfill every year (Environmental Defence).

We, the undersigned, *Citizens of Canada*, call upon the *Government of
Canada *to include plastic water bottles on the list of single use plastics
that need to be phased out permanently in 2021.
History
Open for signature November 5, 2020, at 4:19 p.m. (EDT) Closed for
signature March 5, 2021, at 4:19 p.m. (EDT)
Member of Parliament
[image: Photo - Michael Chong]
Michael Chong
<http://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Michael-D-Chong(25488)>
Wellington—Halton Hills
Conservative Caucus
Ontario
3272 signatures
Sign the petition <https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-2958>
Disclaimer regarding petitions
<https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2958#>





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