Canada Prohibits Certain Single-Use Plastics

30 August 2022

Chemicals compliance

Canada recently issued SOR/2022-138 'Single-use Plastics Prohibition Regulations' to ban the sale of certain single-use plastic products.

The categories of banned products, along with their dates of implementation of the ban, are listed in the table below:

PRODUCT	MANUFACTURE AND IMPORT	SALE	EXPORT
Check-out bags, cutlery, foodservice ware, stir sticks, straws	December 20th, 2022	December 20th, 2023	December 20th, 2025
Ring carriers	June 20th, 2023	June 20th, 2024	December 20th, 2025
Flexible straws packed with beverage container		June 20th, 2024	December 20th, 2025

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