CHART - Statistics Canada, which recently updated its plastics data reporting to aid the national zero-plastic waste strategy, reports that nationally plastic production and imports grew from 5.6 million tonnes in 2012 to more than 7.1 million tonnes in 2020. In 2012, Canadians threw away about 4.3 million tonnes of plastic, and in 2020 that had grown to 4.9 million tonnes.; THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Vokey