Topics in the News: Plastic Waste
Kamala Harris on Plastic Waste:
(Environment Sep 4, 2019)
Ban plastic straws & bags; limit single-use plastic
Q: We're told that there'll be more tons of plastic than of fish in the oceans by 2050. What will you do as president to drastically curb reliance on single-use plastics?HARRIS: Everyone needs to see the images of what these plastic bottles and
straws and everything are doing to our oceans. [The solution] is about one, creating the incentives. We banned plastic bags in California--people had to get used to it.
Q: So would you ban the single-use plastic?
HARRIS: I think we have to create
incentives. Look, those little plastic grocery bags when I was growing up--we used them as garbage bags. Then we didn't have those anymore so we used paper bags as garbage bags--we can adapt.
Q: Do you ban plastic straws?
HARRIS: I think we
should, yes. I'm going to be honest--it's really difficult to drink out of a paper straw. Let's encourage innovation and I think we could do a little bit better than some of those flimsy plastic straws but we do need to ban the plastic.
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Source: CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall marathon (10 Democrats)
Tom Steyer on Plastic Waste:
(Environment Jul 2, 2019)
Ban single-use plastic bags
Report on Steyer's stance and spending on ballot initiatives: - California Proposition 67, Plastic Bag Ban Veto Referendum (2016)
- Steyer Supported; Steyer spent $50,000; outcome: Approved
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The California Plastic Bag Ban Veto Referendum, also known as Proposition 67, was on the November 8, 2016, ballot in California as a veto referendum. It was approved.
- A "yes" vote supported upholding the contested legislation banning
certain plastic bags that was enacted by the California State Legislature as Senate Bill 270.
- A "no" vote opposed banning certain plastic bags and enacting Senate Bill 270.
- The American Progressive Bag Alliance, an opponent of
the measure, led the "No" campaign to repeal SB 270.
- Yes on 67, a coalition of environmental groups, grocers, and others, led the "Yes" campaign to uphold SB 270.
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Source: Ballotpedia.org on California ballot measure voting records
Bill de Blasio on Plastic Waste:
(Environment Jan 10, 2019)
Ban Styrofoam in NYC; plastic straws are next
Every single day we're becoming a more sustainable city because we have to protect the future of our children and our grandchildren. We had to do something that demanded a fight. We had to fight to ban Styrofoam in this city.Some people said
to me it's going to be a fight. It's going mean taking on big business. Well, we took on big business. They sued us. And we won in court. And now Styrofoam is banned in New York City. And let's ban plastic bags and plastic straws while we're at it.
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Source: 2019 State of the City address
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