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More recently, studies have shown that manufacturing and disposal of plastic also has a tremendous carbon footprint and contributes largely the increasing pace of climate change. Climate change, as we all know, is real and happening as we speak. With record-breaking temperatures in Kuwait and British Columbia, to storms that wreaked havoc in Mozambique, to finally our glaciers melting at such a speed, that if nothing is done to curb climate change, it’s just a matter of years till there’s no turning back. However, the momentum is shifting to alternatives like renewables and non-plastic alternatives. In the context of our individual lives, we constantly highlight that we all make mistakes and there’s always a way to turn things around. But...

We started theBag.ca because we had one simple mission to reduce our dependence on single use plastic grocery bags. Over the years we have noticed the dramatic affects plastic has had on our environment. When we traveled to different countries or continents there was always one single theme plastic pollution, be it snorkeling in the pristine waters of San Andres Island, or hiking the ruins of Coba the thing that took away from these spectacular experiences was discarded plastic everywhere. We all have experienced it walking down the streets of our neighbourhoods, the plastic coffee lids or strewn bags from the local grocery store. Single use plastic is a new problem for mankind.  The plastic bag was born in the...

New York uses 23 billion plastic bags