OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government is suspending the planned export ban on single-use plastics due to tariffs and supply chain issues \u201ccreating significant pressure on the domestic economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The government launched a 70-day consultation about not moving forward with the single-use plastic export ban on Saturday through the Canada Gazette.<\/p>\n
The government says the progress on environmental benefit expected with the export ban is not proportional to the economic impact.<\/p>\n
The plastic sector generated $35 billion in revenue shipping single use plastics in 2023, according the notice in the Gazette.<\/p>\n
The posting notes that while many producers of single-use plastics have shifted toward making paper, fibre and compostable alternatives, a \u201csignificant number\u201d of producers have not made the conversions.<\/p>\n
The government says a majority of these operations are small businesses and stopping the export ban would minimize losses associated with shuttered production lines and stranded manufacturing assets.<\/p>\n
Businesses that continue to produce single-use plastics will have to keep records for five years showing that products have or will be exported.<\/p>\n
The domestic ban on single-use plastics such as grocery bags, straws, cutlery and ring carriers for cans remains in place.<\/p>\n
The government notice in the Gazette says the effect on domestic plastic pollution is expected to be \u201cnegligible.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the international side, the Gazette posting says that single-use plastics are a global market and removing Canadian products means customers will find another supplier, so the government does not expect international plastic pollution to change as a result of a Canadian export ban.<\/p>\n
The export ban had been scheduled to take effect Dec. 20.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n
Canadian Press Staff, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government is suspending the planned export ban on single-use plastics due to tariffs and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,46,295,47,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-367868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-national","14":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}