Plastic Bag Recycling
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Fiction: Plastic bags are not recycled, or have very low recycling rates in Canada.
Fact: Canada has a national network of plastic bag recyclers and recycling rates are high and growing as recycling expands.
The Facts
The recycling of plastic shopping bags that have not been reused for household and pet waste or for organics collection (40-60% of the bags) is very popular in Canada. Recycling rates are high: 32% in B.C, 32% in Alberta, 36% in Ontario and as high as 50% in some provinces in Atlantic Canada.1
The bags are recycled and remanufactured, locally, extending the life of the resource and creating valuable green manufacturing jobs.
The bags are recycled through a national network of recyclers into new bags, outdoor furniture, office supplies, water pipes, plastic lumber, and garden supplies.
Recycling rates are high and growing
There is a national network of bag recyclers coast to coast
The recycling of plastic shopping bags across Canada is supported by an extensive network of recyclers from coast to coast – large and small. The large recyclers are Merlin Plastics in Western Canada, EFS-plastics in Ontario, RCM Group in Quebec, and Inteplast in Atlantic Canada.
There are many successful recycling systems in Canada
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