VANCOUVER — As of July 15, the following aspects of B.C.’s Single-Use Plastic Waste Prevention Regulation are now in place:
Shopping bags
- Minimum fees on new recycled paper ($0.25) bags and new re-usable shopping bags ($2)
- Requirement of minimum 40 per cent recycled content in paper shopping bags (recycled paper bags for food delivery and drive-thru orders are exempt from this fee)
- Re-usable bags must be durable enough to be re-used and machine-washed at least 100 times
- Click here to see shopping bag fact sheet for more details
Foodservice ware
- Businesses can long distribute or sell single-use foodservice ware made with certain hard-to-recycle plastics
- Click here to see foodservice ware fact sheet for more details
