By Beth Tilbury, InsideOttawaValley Letter to the Editor, August 26, 2019
An article I read the other day stated that a garbage truck's worth of plastic
ends up in our oceans every minute. That's every minute, not every hour or every
day, every minute! If it's true, and I have no doubt that it is, it's
terrifying, and is obviously the reason that so many cities, restaurant chains,
and ordinary folks are trying to reduce their consumption of single-use
plastics.
So why on earth are the flyers in Metroland’s newspapers suddenly bagged in plastic? Loose in the newspaper has been good enough for the decade that we have been receiving the paper, so why do the flyers now need to be bagged?
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