Plastics ban is bad for the environment National Post 23 Mar 2023 Elmira aliakbari Julio mejia and Elmira Aliakbari and Julio Mejia are analysts at the Fraser Institute. Earlier this month, the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments appeared before the Federal Court of Canada to challenge the federal government’s ban on six types of single-use plastics, which went into effect late last year. Citing an ocean pollution crisis, the government also plans to gradually ban the manufacturing, importation and sale of checkout bags, cutlery, food service ware, stir sticks and straws by 2025, supposedly to improve the environment and deliver economic benefits to Canadians. In reality, the plastics ban is an expensive measure that will create more garbage and impose net economic costs on Canadians. Canada contributes an estimated 0.02 per cent of all the plastic that goes into the world’s oceans . Nearly 90 per cent of it comes from Asia and Africa, with just five countries — Philippines, India, Ma...