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Now that 2023 has arrived, it brings with it the first phase of the Canadian Federal Single-Use Plastics ban, which restricts the import and manufacture of a few different single-use plastic products for sale and distribution in Canada, effective immediately.

There is general scientific consensus now that the Earth’s ecosystems are in a state of crisis, and word is getting around. Because of the growing awareness of climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction, more people are ready - consumers and businesses alike - to make an effort to help fix what is broken.

In the lead-up to phase 1 of Canada’s single-use plastic ban later this year, a lot of confusion has surfaced about which things are ‘compostable’, and which things are not. Most of the confusion has to do with bioplastics, which are (in their current formulation) made from a plant-sourced compostable product known as Polylactic Acid, or PLA (acide polylactique).