Reducing Single Use and Takeaway Items

Phase 1 Consultation This dataset includes responses from this public survey. The Online Survey was available from September 20, 2018 to October 28, 2018 and received approximately 20,000 responses. In Fall 2018, Solid Waste Management Services held a series of engagement opportunities to seek feedback from the public on how to reduce single-use and takeaway items — such as coffee cups, plastic bags, take-out containers and plastic cutlery, etc., in Toronto. Engagement was focused on determining which single-use or takeaway items residents and stakeholders are most interested in addressing and their preferred methods or approaches to reducing these items or promoting additional reuse. An online survey was hosted by the City of Toronto, available online from September 20, 2018 to October 28, 2018. The results of quantitative questions from this survey are presented in this dataset. The definition presented for a single-use or takeaway item was: A single-use or takeaway item is any product designed for a single use after which is it disposed of, whether into garbage or a waste diversion stream, as solid waste. Typically, these products are not designed for durability or reuse.…

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City of Toronto

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2022-03-10