I found some recycling statistics for Canada as a whole. In 2018, Canadians generated 35.6 million tonnes of solid waste. Only 28% of waste was recycled in Canada in 2018 with the rest of it going into landfills, shipped abroad, or burned². The recycling rate varies across different provinces. In 2018, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, Quebec, and Nova Scotia recycled more waste than the national average of 265 kg per person. The amount recycled in all three territories, and in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and New Brunswick ranged from 164 kg to 237 kg per person².

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According to data from Oceana, Canadians use about 3.3 million tonnes of plastic each year and 2.8 million tonnes of plastic waste ends up in landfills in Canada. Their statistics also show that Canadians use 57 million plastic straws daily and around 15 billion plastic bags every year. Only around 9% of the total plastic waste is recycled in Canada. Canadians make up less than 0.5% of the global population, however, use 1.4% of all plastic produced.

Much of the waste comes from packaging with each Canadian throwing away about half a kilogram of packaging each day. Half of Canadian cities’ solid waste by volume and a third by weight comes from packaging. Over one-third of plastics in Canada are created for single-use products or packaging.

88% of plastics that do not end up in landfills are recycled in Canada while 12% is shipped elsewhere, mainly to countries in Southeast Asia where much of it is burned or reenters the environment.

A study published in 2021 showed that plastic waste in our seas mainly comes from single-use bags, food containers, food wrappers, and plastic bottles. 80% of plastic found in the seas is from land-based sources and the remaining 20% from fishing and shipping litter.

Even though Canada has had recycling programs in place for over thirty years, in 2016 more than 3.2 million metric tonnes of plastic still ended up as garbage according to Deloitte for Environment and Climate Change Canada.