Mississauga: Environmental Conscious Policy To Be Put in Place + My Reaction


Mississauga Pushing For Environmentally-Conscious Policy

by Ashley Newport on July 2, 2018
**Reposted and Edited by G.G on Mississauga TV Blog** With external sources of research 
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While the harms routinely committed against the environment have been talked about at length, concrete solutions haven't always been proposed and/or carried out.

But that doesn’t appear to be the case with single-use plastics in Mississauga.
Last month, Mississauga City Council passed a motion to request that the federal government develop a national strategy to reduce plastic pollution.
This came after the 44th G7 Summit in Quebec, where five countries, including Canada, agreed to the Ocean Plastics Charter—a charter that aims to keep single-use plastics like bottles, cups and bags from polluting the earth's oceans.

"Every year, more than 22 million tonnes of plastics find their way into the Great Lakes - our most precious natural resource and our main source of drinking water," said Mayor Bonnie Crombie.
"City Council continues to demonstrate leadership in environmental stewardship; from passing a resolution to restrict microbeads in 2015 to today's motion that urges the federal government to develop a strategy to reduce single-use plastics, it's clear that we are committed to building a sustainable city. By also making small changes to help reduce our plastic consumption as a City, we are demonstrating that all levels of government have an important role to play in addressing this global issue."
According to the motion, the Canadian plastics industry aims to make all plastic packaging recyclable or recoverable by 2030, and entirely diverted from landfills by 2040. Along with requesting a national plastics reduction strategy, the resolution also states that the city will:

* Make every effort to educate and promote the reduction of waste to all staff, with a focus on single-use plastic

* Reduce the use of non-recyclable, single-use plastics from use/purchase within internal operations, where feasible

* Work with the Region of Peel to champion the City's single-use plastic waste reduction initiatives at City facilities
The city says it's also developing its first climate change action plan to help minimize and prepare Mississauga for the impacts of a changing global climate.
"We're a municipality within the Great Lakes Region, where Lake Ontario is the main source of drinking water for our residents," said Ward 8 Councillor Matt Mahoney, Chair of Mississauga's Environmental Advisory Committee.
"We value our shared responsibility to protect the health of our oceans from plastic pollution and to lead responsible approaches here locally for a resilient, low carbon future."
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Read more at the following sites: 
https://www.insauga.com/mississauga-pushing-for-environmentally-conscious-policy

Hello Guys! Here is my reaction to the current environmental policies. The City is pushing for envirornmental stewardship, but is looking in all the wrong places. Here are a few reasons why the environmental department is failing to protect the environment: 

  1. The animals aren't being respected. Habitats are continuously being destroyed as the city is building houses and more apartments that aren't space efficient. 
  2. Wasting energy. The energy is failing to implement policies that are lessening the consumers use of energy. Canadians use more water than any other country per Capita on other other than the US. And the Canadian governments are doing nothing to implement water reducing infrastructure THROUGHOUT the city. We need to nationalize consummation limits and impose limits, and standards join the construction of all new buildings to have these systems in place to begin with. Buildings need to be equipped with Rain Water Collection pipes and allow for their reuse and have grey-water pipes in the houses already. They need to allow laundry machines to reuse clean tap water and to wash shoes with clothes water etc., They need to implement smarter landscaping decisions and make swimming pools and water pads strategically near grasses and plant areas to allow for the water to be used in other purposes.
  3. Bans are not enough. Industries will not listen just because you tell them to. We need environmental inspection officers who are watching these industries with clean slates, we don't need the government who is influenced by the powers that the industrial sectors bring to our government. If we are so keen on keeping our planet healthy, then we should industrialize as the government our own products and distribute them to residents instead of allowing industry to penetrate the surface of our earth. We need to get rid of the people that are doing things wrong, but imposing a stricter legislation and more fines, but also making consequences which can long-term build stronger 
  4. Plastics banned are not going to solve everything. We need to make greener materials that do rot and compost but also make them a staple in our nation. We need to stop these big bottling companies such as Nestle who bottle there water right here in Ontario and stop the entire distribution of these bottles into our countries. We need to say bye to these companies once and for all, who are mass producing the plastics and making money for it! The ban on plastic micro-beads is just a virtually non existent actions that cannot do anything to help our environment long-term. 
  5. We need to stop packaging and making it a societal expectation. We need smaller packages, and maximize the area of other mediums. We need to eliminate small trial size and make bulk the norm. We should have a zero waste movement (zero food waste etc.,) and make compost toilets a norm! 

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