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How Maine and Oregon seek to make manufacturers pay for packaging waste
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Conway man Tased a year ago is back in jail
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Berkeley City Council discusses sustainability, housing crisis
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The Berkeley City Council Facilities, Infrastructure, Transportation, Environment and Sustainability Committee met Wednesday to discuss the use of produce bags in grocery stores and promote the use of reusable bags.
Topics addressed during the meeting include bag usage from a store’s produce section, compostable bags and sellers outside of the grocery industry.
In 2014, California legislators passed SB 270, which phased out single-use, carryout plastic bags in stores with specified retail floor space and sales. Even so, stores could still supply thicker bags consisting largely of nonreusable material for 10 cents, according to City Councilmember Kate Harrison. She proposed that the charge be increased to 25 cents.
California is the top exporter of contaminated plastic in the nation, flooding poor countries who lack infrastructure to manage it, confer stakeholders vested in curbing plastic pollution. And the state could be headed for big trouble (not unlike other states, but even more so) as pressure intensifies for policy to end U.S. plastics exports. Yet some of California’s own are among those who are most forcefully pushing to crackdown on shipments leaving their ports.
Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) put out a resolution (AJR 4) to urge President Joe Biden to ratify the Basel Convention treaty within his first 100 days in office. The Basel Convention made it illegal for parties participating in the agreement to export mixed and contaminated plastics to developing countries as of Jan. 1, 2021.