In this week’s issue of our environment newsletter, we look at well-meaning but complicated efforts to create and certify plastic-free plastic and where things stand with the federal government’s two-billion-trees pledge.
In this week’s issue of our environment newsletter, we look at well-meaning but complicated efforts to create and certify plastic-free plastic and where things stand with the federal government’s two-billion-trees pledge.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
What I eventually found out is that the term “plastic-free” isn’t nearly as simple or self-explanatory as it sounds, and that making single-use packaging greener is a complex challenge for everyone involved.
A note attached to the email from Laura Parlagreco, Astro Box’s vice-president of operations, said the window was made of cellulose acetate from wood pulp “sustainably sourced from fast-growing eucalyptus trees.”
“It’s great to read about cities and provinces that are establishing these eco corridors as a refuge for wildlife and for city-dwellers to share and escape the heat … We all need to recognize how necessary they are and fight to protect them.”
To put that in context — as the map above attempts to do — an area about the size of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island combined has burned this summer.
In a statement, NRCAN said it revised its 2021 figure by adding millions of trees planted through partner programs like Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Low Carbon Economy Fund (LCEF).
But the environmental advocacy organization Nature Canada said that if the government is counting existing trees that were already planted, it cannot claim its two-billion-trees program is offering any additional value.
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