The Calgary Municipal Building photographed on May 4, 2024.
Calgary city council has officially repealed the single-use items bylaw in a 12-3 vote, which means businesses will no longer be required to collect a fee from customers for any single-use or reusable bags.The Calgary Municipal Building photographed on the weekend. Council voted on Tuesday to repeal the city's single-use items bylaw.
"I think behaviour change is an important component here. But how you drive that behaviour change is even more important," said Gondek. "So it was clear that using the approach of a charge, especially at food service locations, was not the way that Calgarians were going to engage with us on this.
"We go out with a solution without asking Calgarians, 'how do we make this better?' And then incorporate that feedback into whatever administration is making," she said.The repeal process for the bylaw required a 90-day notification and advertising period, plus a public hearing, which took less than two hours to complete on Tuesday. Council heard from five members of the public.
"He called to update me to say that he went from using 2,000 plastic bags prior to the bylaw — and of course the federal regulation had come into effect a month before our bylaw — to now using 100 paper bags per month."While businesses are also no longer required by law to charge a fee for bags, they still can if they choose to.
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