What You Can Do
Lobby your councillor
- Lobby your city councillor to get them to ban plastic bags outright as other municipalities and countries have done.
- Click here to find your ward and the name and email address of your Councillor. (You can use Search by Address if you don't know your ward.)
- StopPlastics has prepared some materials for you to use to lobby your councillor:
- Volunteer to work with StopPlastics to organize lobbyists.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, replace

- Stop using bottled water other than for essential purposes (e.g. as a source of water during an extreme weather event)
- Reduce your household's use of disposable plastics
- Use reusable bags and recycle your old plastic bags.
- At your workplace get management to ban water bottles and other non-reusable plastic products (other than for essential purposes such as in hospitals.)