A group of concerned Lunenburg residents are working to eliminate single-use plastics from the town.
Cutlery, straws, and coffee lids are some of the items Plastic Free Lunenburg would like to see gone.
Teresa Quilty and her group are working with town staff to propose a bylaw that will be voted on by council in June.
Quilty notes a grassroots movement is already driving the change.
“The small restaurants and stores and so on, they were already making even more changes because they were finding last summer the tourists were saying, I don’t want a bag, I don’t want a straw, stop using this stuff.”
She says if a country like India with a population of 1.3 billion people can eliminate the use of plastics over the next couple of years it can be done here.
“The E.U., the same thing. I mean, those are massive changes. Canada, nothing so far. Nova Scotia, nothing.”
Quilty is encouraging residents to talk to councillors before the vote on the proposed ban takes place June 11.
Reported by: Ed Halverson
Twitter: @edwardhalverson
E-mail: halverson.ed@radioabl.ca
