For cities and towns trying to cut out plastic, here’s what’s worked and what hasn’t

By Emily Chung –  CBC News

Global plastic consumption has quadrupled in the past 30 years, and only nine per cent is being recycled, the OECD reports. That’s the case even in Canada. The rest is landfilled, littered or incinerated — and a federal move to ban six kinds of single-use plastic items is facing a legal setback.

Emily Robinson, a researcher at the University of Guelph who studies sustainability in food service operations, says recycling isn’t enough to deal with the scale of the problem, and we need to “turn off the tap.”