Recently, the supermarket chain Walmart announced that it will stop providing disposable plastic bags. This policy is valid for both in-store shopping and delivery orders.

Wal-Mart’s goal is to completely eliminate plastic bags by April 22, 2022 (Earth Day), and contribute to the protection of the planet.

Horacio Barbeito, President and CEO of Walmart Canada, said in a statement: "The elimination of plastic bags is an important milestone in our journey to becoming a renewable company. This is the right approach."

In order to smoothly transition to a life without plastic bags, Wal-Mart encourages customers to bring their own bags from home. If needed, they will also sell reusable bags.

Prior to this announcement, Wal-Mart had already taken other changes, such as removing the plastic packaging of organic bananas, removing disposable plastic straws in stores and replacing them with paper substitutes.

In fact, apart from plastic bags, a lot of plastic waste has been reduced around us in the past two years.

As early as 2019, the Canadian federal government set a big goal, hoping to completely ban some disposable plastic products in 2021, including plastic bags, straws, stirring rods, tableware, food containers, and 6-bottled products that are difficult to recycle. Plastic ring.

However, the 2020 epidemic hits and the catering industry is facing huge challenges. The "plastic restriction order" and "plastic ban order" have to be temporarily shelved.

But starting in 2021, the government is really moving!

Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, Surrey and other metropolitan cities have announced that they will completely ban plastic bags and foam containers.

Even in supermarkets and restaurants, we no longer see plastic products. Shopping bags will be fully replaced with paper bags and canvas bags. The minimum price of paper bags is 25 cents, and the price of canvas bags is $2.

Starting in 2022, the government will impose fines on any plastic products found in Metro Vancouver.

According to the relevant policies of the BC Provincial Government, once businesses in cities in the province violate the "plastic ban", they may face fines ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.

If you are afraid that you will not be able to adapt to a life without plastics, in fact, we have been learning slowly and growing slowly.

First of all, in Vancouver, all milk tea shops have been notified that, starting in April this year, plastic straws will be replaced with straws of other materials. If you find that the milk tea shop where you order the takeaway still provides plastic straws, they are actually doing something illegal by fluke.

In addition, other cities such as Richmond will also implement this regulation from March next year. We will eventually accept the reality that there are no plastic straws for drinking milk tea by September next year at the latest.

Plastic bags, plastic containers, lunch boxes, straws and other plastic products are everywhere in our lives. But their damage to the ecological environment is also well known to everyone.

Whether it is fish and shrimp and other animals that are entangled with garbage bags and are tightly bound to become deformed; or the landfill is full of mess and the land has not grown for many years, such popular science articles and pictures must have been seen many times. .

There is no denying that the ban on plastics will bring a certain degree of inconvenience to life, but try to adapt, after all, this is our only earth.