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Premier Doug Ford has asked the LCBO to reverse its decision to stop giving customers paper bags for their alcohol purchases.
“At a time when many Ontario families are already struggling to make ends meet, every additional cost counts,” Ford said in an April 7 letter to the LCBO president and CEO.
“That includes charging customers for reusable bags instead of the free paper bags previously offered by the LCBO.”
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The LCBO initially announced last year in April that it was phasing out paper bags in its stores and officially phasing them out on September 5, 2023.
The company said the move would save the equivalent of 188,000 trees each year and divert 2,665 tonnes of waste from landfill.
However, in Ford’s letter he wrote that the change has “left people stuck openly carrying alcohol in public when leaving an LCBO store.”
“People rightly expect their government – and, consequently, crown corporations like the LCBO – to be aware of these costs and refrain from imposing additional and unnecessary burdens on them,” Ford wrote.
The LCBO only provides carriers and eight-pack boxes when available. It has reusable bags for sale.
“Paper bags are an easy-to-recycle alternative to single-use plastic, which is why the LCBO adopted them in the first place,” noted Ford in regards to the move.
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