Walmart, LCBO are the latest retailers to embrace single-use paper bags. Environmentalists are concerned [Video]

Following complaints about reusable Walmart blue bags piling up in homes, the retail giant is phasing out the fabric bags, switching to paper bags for both grocery delivery and in stores.

Steve Calarco, a Walmart delivery customer in Edmonton, says he has already collected hundreds of the bags, which he puts out for recycling. Still, Calarco suggests that switching to paper bags isn’t the best move for the environment.

“Probably 30 per cent to 40 per cent of the bags that I get have got some sort of rip in them, so they’re not going to be reusable,” he said. “That does absolutely nothing to reduce waste.”

In late 2022, the federal government rolled out a ban on certain single-use plastics, including shopping bags. The regulations are being contested in court, but …