FPA Submits Comments on Canada’s Draft Science Assessment of Plastic Pollution

I am writing on behalf of the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), who is the voice of U.S. manufacturers of flexible packaging and their suppliers, regarding the above referenced Government of Canada’s Draft Science Assessment of Plastic Pollution (Draft), published in the Gazette Part 1 on February 1, 2020 under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. FPA understands the importance of reducing and recycling solid waste to minimize litter, marine debris, optimize landfill space, and work towards a circular economy. However, FPA believes it is simply not appropriate to use CEPA to support classification of plastics as toxic in order to address what is a solid waste and not a toxics issue.