The LA City Council unanimously voted to begin the process to phase out single-use plastics at city facilities and city-sponsored events, as well as to take steps toward a potential citywide ban on polystyrene products such as Styrofoam.
at city facilities and city-sponsored events, as well as to take steps toward a potential citywide ban on polystyrene products such as Styrofoam.
"Our future in Los Angeles is plastics-free," said Councilman Mitch O'Farrell, one of the leaders of the motion. "Our phase-out of single-use plastics has been underway for years now through the plastic bag ban of about nine years ago to straws-upon-request about four years ago and plastic-utensils- upon-request just last year."
Wednesday's motion instructed the city attorney to draft an ordinance banning single-use plastic at city facilities and at events on city property. The Bureau of Sanitation will also develop an online zero waste training course that would be implemented for all city employees annually starting January 2023, and each city department would be instructed to develop zero waste plans by Sept. 30.
"The instructions before us today are another step in the long-term effort to reverse the profound damage and degradation to our environment that I've witnessed in my own lifetime with the profound, widespread use of plastics everywhere, which did not exist before the 1970s," O'Farrell said.
Councilman Paul Krekorian spoke about how the proliferation of plastic impacts Angelenos, saying, "look around your neighborhoods."
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