California lawmakers voted to do away with reusable plastic bags after the elimination of single-use plastic bags has failed to reduce plastic pollution.
California lawmakers have voted to do away with reusable plastic bags after the elimination of single-use plastic bags failed to reduce plastic pollution. 'California’s original ban on plastic bags hasn’t worked out as planned, and sadly, the state’s plastic bag waste has increased dramatically since it went into effect,' said Sen. Catherine Blakespear, the bill’s author, in a statement. 'California must do its part to eliminate this scourge that is contaminating our environment.
California’s current bag ban law, which allows businesses to replace thin plastic bags with supposedly reusable ones at checkout, clearly is not working,' Jenn Engstrom, state director of CALPIRG, said in a statement on Tuesday. 'Plastic companies mass-producing thicker bags circumvent the law’s intent,' she continued. 'Then, inevitably, discarded bags pollute our communities and environment.
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