Tony R. Walker
Professor, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Editor, Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
Born at 324 in 🇬🇧
#plasticpollution #singleuseplastic #microplastics #PlasticsTreaty #ClimateChange #SciComm #SciPol
- Cracking the code of multi-layer films to promote circularity in #singleuseplastic packaging www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- The global plastics treaty can be saved — here’s how to break the deadlock www.nature.com/articles/d41... #PlasticsTreaty #PlasticPollution @scientistscoa.bsky.social
- Roberta Clowater of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society questioned why protected areas would be treated as “a wood bank for industry.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Another Monday. Another Snow ❄️ Day. That means it’s Groundhog Day!!
- In 2021, the Canadian government added manufactured #plastic items to the list of toxic substances under Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/202... #plasticpollution #singleuseplastics #toxicsubstances #CEPA
- Then a group of Canadian industry lobbyists launched the Responsible Plastic Use Coalition to pursue legal action against the move. But the federal government was right to classify #singleuseplastics as toxic www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Then the plastic industry lobbyists managed to get the Canada’s Federal Court to overturn the nation’s ban on single-use plastics, claiming that the policy was “unreasonable and unconstitutional”. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #singleuseplastics
- But today, scientific evidence-based policy won! Vindication!!!! Appeal court rules in favour of Ottawa's toxic plastic listing www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
- Ottawa wins Federal Court appeal allowing single-use plastics ban to stand www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art... #singleuseplastics
- Vindication! The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court decision, giving Ottawa the power to keep its ban on single-use plastics in place.
- A 2023 Federal Court decision said Ottawa had overstepped in designating all “plastic manufactured items” as toxic.
- We were right all along... But in a unanimous decision Friday, the three-judge panel ruled the federal government’s decision to list plastic manufactured items as toxic was reasonable. Canada must uphold its classification of single-use plastics www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- I’m not sure where I’m gonna be able to shovel another 35 cm of snow ❄️ this week?
- Microplastic Pollution: Advancements in Mitigation, Policy Challenges, and Future Directions link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Microplastic #PlasticPollution
- From micro to macro: legal tools for combating plastic pollution at national, EU, and international levels link.springer.com/article/10.1... #plasticpollution #Microplastics #BaselConvention #EU
- #Microplastic Pollution and Ecological Risk in a Vietnamese River: A Case Study from the Bach Hac Confluence, Phu Tho Province link.springer.com/article/10.1...
