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:
  • A sample email message that you can send to your councillor
  • A document containing background information on reasons for banning plastic bags
  • A document containing counter arguments to some of the myths propagated by the plastics industry
• 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.)