They're doing a lot of recycling of plastics into fuzzy wuzzy blankets that are labeled "recycled plastic," and they're really luxuriously soft. But thanks for the information, and I think I will do what I can to stop buying plates and bowls. My puppy, Miss Song, chews on them anyway. She's a mess!
The bill reads thusly:
Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2021
This bill sets forth requirements and incentives to reduce the production of a variety of products and materials, including plastics,
and increase efforts to collect, recycle, or compost products and materials.
The bill makes certain producers of products (e.g., packaging, paper, single-use products, beverage containers, or food
service products)
fiscally responsible for collecting, managing, and recycling or composting the products after consumer use.
In addition, the bill establishes (1) minimum percentages of products that must be reused, recycled, or composted;
and (2) an increasing percentage of recycled content that must be contained in beverage containers.
Beginning on January 1, 2023, the bill phases out a variety of single-use products, such as plastic utensils.
The bill also sets forth provisions to encourage the reduction of single-use products,
including by establishing programs to refund consumers for returning beverage containers
and by establishing a tax on carryout bags.
The bill creates a temporary moratorium on new or expanded permits for certain facilities that manufacture plastics
until regulations are updated to address pollution from the facilities.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must publish guidelines for a national standardized labeling system
for recycling and composting receptacles. Producers must include labels on their products that are easy
to read and indicate whether the products are recyclable, compostable, or reusable.
The EPA must also ensure that certain clothes washers have filtration units as required by this bill.
Finally, the bill establishes limitations on the export of plastic waste to other countries.
Considering that plastics are so lethal to the only source for 10% of the world's poor who live near the coast and may be exposed to eating a lot of fish, It's worth it to me. I never have loved plastics much, anyhow, and though I recycle, I just never thought of putting plastics into recycle. Now it's making sense to me. Thanks, JLW. I always did like paper bags, paper plates, and paper cups better than plastic anyhow. Maybe they could make reusable bamboo knives, forks, and spoons to replace the plastic ones that could wind up in the belly of a whale since they so easily break they usually wind up in the trash at my house in the past. Thanks again for the hint on saving the planet's sea life.
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