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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/california-single-use-plastic-reduce-law-gavin-newsom>
"California has passed an ambitious law to significantly reduce single-use
plastics, becoming the first state in the US to approve such sweeping
restrictions.
Under the new law, which California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed on
Thursday afternoon, the state will have to ensure a 25% drop in single-use
plastic by 2032. It also requires that at least 30% of plastic items sold or
bought in California are recyclable by 2028, and establishes a plastic
pollution mitigation fund.
“It’s time for California to lead the nation and world in curbing the plastic
crisis. Our planet cannot wait,” said Ben Allen, the state senator who
introduced the legislation.
The passage of the bill came just before a deadline to remove an initiative
aimed at reducing single-use plastics from the November ballot.
Negotiations on the bill have been under way for six months with a team working
to craft a proposal that ensured the economic responsibility fell to plastic
producers and used language that satisfied the demands of all involved from
those in the industry to environmentalists, the
Los Angeles Times reported.
The law will establish a producer responsibility organization, composed of
industry representatives, to run a recycling program overseen by the state. The
organization will also be responsible for $500m a year in support for a new
plastic pollution mitigation fund to look at the environmental and health
impacts of plastics.
The state will also be required to reduce expanded polystyrene, which is
commonly used in food containers, 25% by 2023, a goal experts say will be all
but impossible to reach as so little of the material is currently recycled."
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Future Crunch Jul 2, 2022:
https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-malaria-bullfighting-offshore-wind/
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