California’s new plastics law potential watershed in USA
Posted on July 8, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource
The state Legislature on June 30 adopted what is the toughest U.S. plastics law so far. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it into law the same day. It requires plastics and other kinds of single-use packaging to have a 65 percent recycling rate by 2032, and it puts in place an extended producer responsibility system to have companies fund recycling improvements.
California joins a small group — Maine, Oregon and Colorado — in passing EPR laws for packaging. It’s likely more will follow.
But the Golden State, no surprise, wants to go a few steps farther than others. Its plan requires companies to pay $500 million a year for 10 years into a pollution mitigation fund.
And it sets up targets for reducing single-use plastics packaging by 25 percent, by item count, by 2032, with some requirements for absolute reductions and not switching to other materials.
Dr Ross Headifen is an active promotor of the issues of plastic waste and what it is doing to our environment. He looks at issues concerning the proliferation of plastic waste and methods to control/reduce it. Including Reduce, Replace, Recycle and a new 4th R for Rejuvenation using landfill biodegradable additives to make plastics fade away.
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