The Provincial opposition is calling on the Higgs government to take steps to significantly reduce the use of plastic bags in New Brunswick.
Liberal environment critic Cathy Rogers says Prince Edward Island has great success in eliminating plastic bags from the waste stream after introducing legislation in that
province called the Plastic Bag Reduction Act.
Rogers would like to see similar legislation brought in for New Brunswick.
She says the Liberals will be bringing this forward when the Legislature resumes next month.
Rogers says discarded plastic bags have been piling up since China stopped taking overseas recyclables.
“Unfortunately, it’s likely these bags are going to end up in a landfill somewhere,” Rogers says. “That’s obviously not a great outcome for the environment, and we need to do something about
it.”
