Sarah King

Praise poured in from Canadian environmental groups on Sunday, March 5, 2023, for a newly signed treaty that will help protect biodiversity in the high seas, where conservation efforts across vast stretches of the planet have historically been hampered by a confusing patchwork of laws.

Two weeks of United Nations negotiations for a high seas treaty have ended in failure, with wealthy countries slowing down the process and Russia acting as "a key blocker" in the discussions, says Greenpeace.

Canada and its international partners have to commit to weaning themselves off unnecessary plastics and aggressively creating a global circular economy to curb marine plastic pollution at the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon.

It's the end of days for plastic grocery bags and Styrofoam takeout containers in Canada.

In mid January the British Columbia government announced it was looking at a wide ban on single-use plastic grocery bags to put an end to a piecemeal, city-by-city approach to the problem of plastic pollution.

The province's environment minister thinks the Trudeau government's offer to put carbon-tax revenue toward school renovations is patronizing: 'We're big boys and girls.'

An analysis of Canada's plastic industry shows the industry producing plastic dwarfs the industry trying to recycle it.

The federal government has issued no permits for Canadian companies to ship trash overseas since regulations changed three years ago but Canadian garbage is still showing up unwanted in Asian nations.

Canada's environment ministers want to cut in half the amount of garbage this country produces, in a little over two decades.