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• There is little dispute these days over the need to regulate single-use plastics.
• But there is ample confusion around what plastics to address and how to do so.

Designing a plastics ban

• However, the question remains: is Canada’s single-use plastics ban actually going to make a big difference?
• This waste alongside the usefulness of plastics for restaurants would seemingly make the food service industry an essential place to start when addressing plastics waste.

Focus on circularity and reusable alternatives rather than single-use items

• However, despite the advantage that many of these alternatives can break down over time, not enough emphasis is put on the remaining essential single-use nature of these items.
• Additionally, given the lack of standardization on what is classified as biodegradable, consumers can often be deceived by mislabelled products.
• However, as an effective long-term solution, the government needs to offer support for the integration and growth of circular systems.

Challenges and solutions for food service operators

• Looking at the way restaurant operators are responding to this challenge, there are a few key solutions we need to be focusing on.
• All levels of government can better support restaurants through this transition by providing guidance, funding and advocacy for scaling reusable startups and for integrating them into food service with different communities likely requiring different levels of support.
• Some companies have been experimenting with their own reusable schemes, however, relying on corporate drive alone will not be sufficient.

Seeing the plastics ban as an opportunity

• Restaurant operators, and other industries that regularly handle single-use plastics need to be more proactive about what they will need from their government to become less reliant on plastics in the future.
• In particular, nine additional common single-use plastics were found in the environment but are not being practically addressed.
• Canada has the opportunity to be a global leader with the implementation of this single-use plastics ban by supporting reuse and moving towards circular practices.

• TORONTO, July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- 1Password, a leader in security and privacy, today announced their latest round of funding that now values the company at $2 billion.
• "This investment from a range of industry luminaries signals a commitment to protecting businesses and families.
• Since 1Password's last round in 2019, they have scaled to more than 90,000 business customers, crossed $120M in ARR and accelerated revenue growth.
• "1Password is an incredible success story of the Canadian tech ecosystem and has massive potential ahead of it.

• Raj joins the executive team at 1Password after working closely with the organization as a board advisor for the past year.
• "1Password is at a pivotal moment in its growth trajectory and I'm looking forward to helping build the type of organization that I've always aspired to work for," said Raj Sarkar, CMO at 1Password.
• "I've truly enjoyed working closely with Raj this past year while he was on our Advisory Board, and know that he is the perfect choice to join my executive team."
• Raj was introduced to 1Password through a relationship with Accel - who led a $200 million investment in the company in 2019.

• In addition to the new product launch, 1Password also completed the acquisition of SecretHub, a secrets management company that protects nearly 5 million enterprise secrets a month.
• The SecretHub team and CEO Marc Mackenbach will join the 1Password immediately, adding expertise and engineers to accelerate the 1Password Secrets Automation roadmap.
• Today\'s launch and SecretHub acquisition signal a major expansion of 1Password, helping enterprises secure their infrastructure and machine-to-machine secrets alongside their human passwords.\n"Companies need to protect their infrastructure secrets as much as their employees\' passwords," said Jeff Shiner, CEO of 1Password.
• "With 1Password and Secrets Automation, there is a single source of truth to secure, manage and orchestrate all of your business secrets.