At the end of the current year, Canada will ban the production, importation and sale of single-use plastic containers.  Items will include supermarket check-out bags, cutlery, food service containers and items manufactured from plastics that cannot be recycled.  The ban will be effective December 2022 with a prohibition on sales at the end of December 2023. 

The intention of banning single-use plastic was announced in 2019 by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.  The action by the Government of Canada will eliminate 1.3 million tons of plastic waste over a ten-year period. It is also intended to ban the export of single-use plastics by the end of 2025 in a gesture to the international community.