{"id":934211,"date":"2026-10-15T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934211\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:52:10","slug":"supreme-court-will-rule-on-ottawas-single-use-plastics-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934211\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court will rule on Ottawa\u2019s single-use plastics ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7efe5aa1-906e-4527-9c39-f99dce499fe3.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Plastic straws are displayed in a glass, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Cincinnati. (Image Credit: AP Photo\/Joshua A. Bickel)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Plastics appeal<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 15, 2026 | 9:39 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear an appeal of Ottawa\u2019s ban on single-use plastics.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision in January, allowing the federal government to keep the ban in place.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 Federal Court decision in a case brought by the plastics industry said Ottawa had overstepped by designating all \u201cplastic manufactured items\u201d as toxic.<\/p>\n<p>But in a unanimous decision in January, the three-judge appellate panel ruled the federal government\u2019s decision to list plastic manufactured items as toxic was reasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plastic straws are displayed in a glass, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Cincinnati. (Image Credit: AP Photo\/Joshua A.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-934211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934211","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=934211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}