NO PLASTIC IS BEST PRACTICE

Many Niagara-based restaurants and bakeries have been keeping their waste output topof-mind since they started, so the federal ban on single-use plastics is welcome.

Jan Campbell-Luxton, owner of De La Terre bakery in St. Catharines, said he's always tried to minimize the waste his businesses create.

"When I came up through kitchens, one of the really horrifying things about professional kitchens is the volume of waste is just staggering," he said. "I wouldn't claim to have sort of solved that problem, but we're working on it constantly."

He opened his Geneva Street bakery in 2019, but had locations in Fonthill and Vineland previously.

De La Terre bakes everything it sells from scratch. At their previous locations, Campbell-Luxton said they had giant windows so people could see the bakers at work.

Primarily, Campbell-Luxton says he uses Kraft paper bags for their breads and pastries. However, the pandemic created a weird situation where people were requesting plastic, he said.

"There was a perception that