Canadian report reveals spike in food-related litter during pandemic

TORONTO -- Restaurants' inability to offer their usual dine-in service during much of 2020 may explain why an unusually high amount of food-related litter was found across the country, a new report says.

Last year, single-use food and beverage containers made up 26.6 per cent of waste collected through the program – nearly twice as high a percentage as in 2019, before the pandemic. That dubious honour goes to cigarette butts and other smoking-related paraphernalia, which comprised nearly 29 per cent of all items collected. There were more than 83,000 cigarette butts among the 42,000 kilograms of waste found and clean up last year.

I've said for years and years that littering fines should start at $2000 and go up from there. If you get caught throwing litter out of a vehicle then you should lose your licence and your car should be impounded. Might help deter it a bit more.

Most of it is usually steps away from a garbage can

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Let’s ban plastic bags!!

… they removed most trash bins because of you know, the lie about China-19 sticking to surfaces

Obviously, they took away the garbage bins at the Tim Hortons & McDonald drive thru!!! Nasty people decided to throw it out the window at the restaurant or on the hwy's especially 401..

People are complain about climate change, over use of plastic etc and yet think nothing about dropping their fast food garbage, cans, face masks and more. I just don’t get human beings anymore.

Less resto more bagged food outside on the go

I thinks that is because there was no monitored garbage cans anywhere!

I’m constantly picking up garbage in my nearby park it’s infuriating 😡Why are people so fricken stupid?!

Bring back the anti littering campaign of the 70's. Still cant get give a hoot don't pollute out of my head.

We gotta make a change It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes Let's change the way we eat Let's change the way we live And let's change the way we treat each other You see, the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do What we gotta do, to survive -Tupac

We're so gross. Sad that we cant keep own garbage under control

People can be such pigs 🐷 🐽!

What are they doing checking my couch?

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