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Styrofoam litter ‘just not acceptable,’ says MPP Jamie West
Styrofoam fragments snowing onto residential properties is indicative of a construction practice that’s “just not acceptable anymore,” Sudbury NDP MPP Jamie West said. “That’s just the way it was, but the world has moved on,” he told Sudbury.com, adding that although he has sympathy for the contractor, who has done nothing wrong by the letter of the law, regulations need to change to prevent littering such as this from continuing to take place. “Even though there isn’t anything legally wrong with what he’s doing, I think that ethically, things have to change,” West said, citing the federal government’s July 2019 banning of microbeads in toiletries as one of many examples of changing times. Another example are the…
