Plastics in Canada

[Dog]

Good for Canada! https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/10/americas/canada-single-use-plastics-intl-hnk/index.html

Plastics are everywhere and after decades of use and disposal in to our waterways (let's not kid ourselves that recycling actually is working on a worldwide scale)... are piling up. The full repercussions of this pollution has not yet been fully quantified.

If you like fishing, it would be hard not to feel some vested interest in this problem.... pack it in, pack it out and above all else when buying something, try to not buy single use plastics, we have to start somewhere if we want our waterways to remain habitable and functional.

[Fort Wisers]

Totally agree @Dog, great post......good wake up call.

[Hodgey1]

 Great reminder dog. I do not have any idea what the heck is the matter with people, when it comes to chucking  things out the window, or worse yet out the boat. I was once on a fly-in trip in the middle of  nowhere, when my boat partner whipped his cigar wrapper over the boat. I made him fish it out with a net LOL .  As fellow sportsmen, we all need to do all we can to protect and preserve the outdoors and without a doubt, Kipawa.

[MikeFromTheSouth]

Every time we go to a campsite (does not matter where it has been around the US or Canada) we always end up packing out trash left behind from other campers.  When we go everything we take in food/snack wise is either burnable or at a minimum.  We finish on a weeks trip with a small plastic 2.5 gallon cat litter tub with lid we use filled with some smashed aluminum cans and one or two small plastic bottles that had cooking oil or something in them.  Meals are planned ahead of time and selected to minimize trash.

When I go out on the ocean the weed lines are just littered with garbage to the point sometimes its just disgusting.  I have a very nice collection of 5 gallon buckets and plastic baskets I have repurposed from ocean treasures!

I think sometimes people forget when they toss a piece of plastic from their truck/boat as they are traveling that unless someone else happens along and picks it up it will never disappear and will always be where you tossed it forever!

The Florida Keys Recycling and getting rid of single use plastics is always a hot issue every local election cycle but it will never change unless the visitors and locals decide themselves they are just going to change what they buy and how they consume it...

My 2 Loonies for you!!