The city of Kamloops is aiming for the spring to implement a plastic bag ban and the Retail Council of Canada is hoping to see some consistency.

Senior Retail Adviser Michael LeBlanc says how do we make sure that when these kinds of laws come into place that they’re applied in a way that has some kind of uniformity. “Many are already down that path and I think if there is only one thing that the Retail Council looks at on behalf of the industry is uniformity. Where different laws in different municipalities can be pretty gnarly to manage through from an operations perspective.”

LeBlanc says plastics and sustainability are very much at the forefront of the issues that the retail council is working in partnership with governments on.

LeBlanc says the province should be taking the lead in order to bring clarity to the rules. “How do we make sure, when these kind of laws come into place, that they’re applied even at the provincial level. Why that is, is because when you have municipalities put in different regulations, it increases operating costs because you got to manage through them, I mean you have thousands of municipalities from coast-to-coast.”