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May 22, 2023. August 1, 2023. Ban on single-use plastic bags in all retail stores with at least 10,000 square feet, except for produce bags made of compostable plastic; $0.10 tax on remaining bag types at large retail stores, with some exceptions.
Phase-out of polystyrene foam. In the late 20th and early 21st century, there has been a global movement towards the phase-out of polystyrene foam as a single use plastic (SUP). Early bans of polystyrene foam intended to eliminate ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), formerly a major component. Expanded polystyrene, often termed ...
September 23, 2024 at 9:14 AM. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store check outs, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to ...
Plastic bans are laws that prohibit the use of polymers manufactured from petroleum or other fossil fuels, given the pollution and threat to biodiversity that they cause.A growing number of countries have instituted plastic bag bans, and a ban on single-use plastic (such as throw-away forks or plates), and are looking to spread bans to all plastic packaging, plastic clothing (such as polyester ...
The state plastic-ban bill would supersede local bans. ... 2023, 162 Massachusetts cities and towns, representing almost 5 million people or 70% of the state's population, regulated single-use ...
The county is following the lead of the city of Santa Fe, which enacted a single-use plastic bag ban in 2015, though it did not ban plastic foam containers. County commissioners passed the ...
Global plastic pollution treaty. UN Member States are currently negotiating a legally-binding, international agreement on plastics that will address the entire life cycle of plastics, from design to production and disposal. On March 2, 2022, UN Member States voted at the resumed fifth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) to establish an ...
Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, who authored SB 1053, said in a statement that California’s original ban on plastic bags has not worked out as planned. “We need to do better ...