Prince Albert Daily Herald
Prince Albert City Hall Herald file photo.
Prince Albert city council is set to vote on reinstating the City’s plastic checkout bag bylaw at their next regular meeting on Monday.
If approved, the suspension will end on Oct. 12, 2021. All public health restrictions will end on July 11, but a report included in Monday’s agenda packaged by the City’s operations manager said the wait was necessary to help businesses prepare to switch over to paper bags.
Council originally suspended the bylaw on July 1, 2020 to give businesses more flexibility in dealing with COVID-19.
“Businesses were in the process of planning for the change when the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the many retail outlets to offer plastic bags for free as a sanitary measure to reduce the handling of reusable bags, which was thought to contribute to the spread of COVID-19,” the report reads.