A Canadian court has ruled that a federal government decision to list some plastics as toxic was ‘unreasonable and unconstitutional’, on account of the items being too broad to be given a toxicity label. A ban on manufacturing and importing ‘harmful’ single-use plastics came into effect late last year in a move that piled hundreds…
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