It used to be recyclable but unfortunately it no longer is.
Aaron Beres, Assistant General Manager with Loraas Disposal, says there is no recycling facility in the world that will accept the soft, stretchy plastic.
China used to accept it, but not anymore.
No type of plastic bag is recyclable, whether the ones you get at the grocery checkout or the clear ones you use to put your fruits and vegetables in.
The same goes for things like Saran wrap or bubble wrap.
Beres clarifies that a grocery bag may have a type of recycling symbol stamped on it, but that is actually a symbol saying it was made from recycled materials.
If something is recyclable, it will have the triangle with the arrows and a number in the middle.
Beres says if there was a place they could send the soft plastic to, even if they had to pay to ship it to a plant they would still include it in the program, but no facilities are accepting it anywhere.
Bottom Line: Plastic Bags Aren’t Recyclable
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”