Ontario’s liquor monopoly says it will comply with Ford’s directive to abandon policy it said would save the equivalent of 188,000 trees a year
Ontario’s liquor monopoly says it will comply with a request from Premier Doug Ford and once again offer customers free paper bags, after having phased them out for environmental reasons.
In his letter, dated Sunday, Mr. Ford said the decision to charge customers for resusable bags is wrong when “Ontario families are already struggling to make ends meet.” In an e-mailed statement on Monday, the LCBO said it had “received direction from the provincial government to take steps to reintroduce single-use paper bags at LCBO retail locations.” It said it could not say when the bags would return but would “share more details with our valued customers in the coming weeks.”
The government-owned booze retailer said at the time that the switch from paper bags would divert 2,665 tonnes of waste from the province’s landfills, saying that it handed out 135 million “single-use” paper bags a year and that the change would say the equivalent of more than 188,000 trees annually. The LCBO stopped handing out single-use plastic bags more than 15 years ago.
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