Directors at the Sunshine Coast Regional District have decided to wait for the province to make rules surrounding single-use and disposable plastic packaging.
Legally, the SCRD cannot issue a ban and instead decided to look at the feasibility of campaigning to reduce the use of these plastics on the Sunshine Coast.
The great pacific garbage patch is a huge area of floating garbage and the contaminants from that material make its way into the food chain.
In the middle of July, the Trudeau government announced plans to end single-use plastics by 2021.
