While BC is one of the leading jurisdictions in North America for recycling, it has much work to do to reduce the amount of waste it produces. A Zero Waste Agenda for BC [2] is a new report that outlines many possibilities for policy solutions to move the province toward zero waste by 2040. Areas like single-use plastics and construction and demolition produce large amounts of waste and should be a focus of government action to make significant reductions.
Read this report [2] about the state of waste in BC and bold policy solutions that could be adopted to dramatically reduce the amount of waste produced.