California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB54, or the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, which passed the state Assembly with a 67-to-2 vote yesterday
evening and the state Senate with a 29-to-0 vote this morning. Ocean Conservancy has been negotiating the language of this bill with fellow environmental advocates for months to make it the single strongest plastics legislation ever seen in the United States.
. We can’t solve this problem without U.S. leadership, and by passing this law, California is righting the ship. This is a huge win for our ocean.” show that the majority of the most common items littering our beaches and waterways are single-use plastic packaging and food ware.Requires a 25% reduction in single-use plastic packaging and foodware by weight and item count by 2032;
Provides hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to support communities and restore ecosystems most impacted by plastic pollution.
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