Plastic Bags Reduction Act. 2019, c. 25, s. 1.

The purpose of this Act is to reduce the use of plastic bags and other single-use products to reduce plastic waste and litter. Under the Act no business shall provide a checkout bag to a customer that is a plastic bag and shall deny or discourage the use by a customer of the customer’s own reusable bag for the purpose of transporting items purchased or received by the customer from the business. Section 8 envisages few exemptions: a bag used to package loose bulk items such as fruit, vegetables, nuts, grains or candy, small hardware items such as nails or nuts and bolts, contain or wrap frozen foods, meat, poultry or fish, whether pre-packaged or not, wrap flowers or potted plants, protect prepared foods or bakery goods that are not pre-packaged, prescription drugs received from a pharmacy, transport live fish, transport a large item that cannot easily fit in a reusable bag, protect clothes after professional laundering or dry cleaning, package medical supplies and items used in the provision of health services, or protect tires that cannot easily fit in a reusable