Vancouver’s 25¢ fee is being scrapped by council, but it’s unlikely a similar fee for paper bags in B.C.’s cities will meet the same fate.
The controversial cup fee was designed to reduce the millions of disposable cups being trashed, but Coun. Rebecca Bligh moved to kill it because she said uptake of alternatives, such as the reusable “cup share” programs, own mugs or eat-in glassware, was low.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The Retail Council of Canada called for Vancouver’s cup fee to be dropped, but hasn’t called for the paper bag fee to go because it seems to be working. Vancouver’s website said 89 million plastic shopping bags and four million paper shopping bags were trashed in 2018 in Vancouver alone. The fees are set “high enough to give customers an incentive to bring their own bags.”
The Retail Council lists municipalities that had a plastics ban, including Vancouver, Richmond, Squamish, Chilliwack, Port Moody, Sooke, Delta, Revelstoke, Fernie, Salmon Arm, Sidney and Harrison Hot Springs. And it said a number of others were considering a bylaw but many contacted for the status of the rule said they had yet to pass one.
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