Calgary businesses and Alberta politicians are pressuring the federal government to exempt compostable checkout bags from its single-use plastic sales ban, which takes effect in December.
The Calgary Co-op is petitioning Ottawa to allow the use of the bags. The store’s director of communications, Sage Pullen McIntosh, said they replaced all their plastic bags with an alternative that has a silky feel.
“Immediately, our members said how much they loved them,” Pullen McIntosh told CBC. “And they also serve double duty.”
The co-op and the bag supplier — working with the city of Calgary — developed a bag that will break down in the city’s compost
