Victoria disappointed by high court refusal to hear plastic bag bylaw appeal

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Victoria disappointed by high court refusal to hear plastic bag bylaw appeal GlobeBC

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When the bylaw was struck down last July, Helps vowed to move forward, saying the ruling didn’t “undermine the soundness” of the regulation but only dealt with the process for its adoption. She says her city’s original checkout bag bylaw kept more than 17 million plastic bags out of the landfill over the year it was in place and the “community continues to avoid plastic bags despite these setbacks.”

 

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