Even as California passes new laws to reduce single-use plastic trash, new sources of plastic are quickly filling the void. It's time to shift focus.
For the last several years, lawmakers have passed new laws aimed at curbing plastic, from the 2014 ban on single-use plastic grocery bags to restrictions on use of plastic straws. But in 2022, they went big and broad,, a revolutionary law that will start phasing out all varieties of single-use plastic in 2025 — basically everything on the shelves of grocery and other retail stores — through escalating composting and recycling requirements on consumer products packaging.
Environmentalists and industry representatives have hammered out a deal for the most significant single-use plastic legislation in the nation. But it has only a week to pass both houses of the state Legislature. Other sources of plastic not targeted by SB 54 are increasingly clogging the waste stream. Call them not-so-durable consumer goods.
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