Energy And Environment Committee: http://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2014/14-0147_mot_01-31-14.pdf
Mar Vista Community Council: http://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2014/14-0147_misc_5-14-14.pdf
1) Call your California Legislator to let them know that you support AB 319 by Assembly Member Stone. The bill would require that plastic beverage container caps be attached to the bottle, or designed such that the beverage is consumed without removing the cap. This bill is up in its first Committee – Assembly Natural…
170 countries couldn’t agree. The fifth round of United Nations negotiations to create a global plastic pollution treaty ended in disappointment in Busan, South Korea in December 2024, with no agreement reached after two years of talks. The summit brought together over 3,300 participants from more than 170 nations, all working toward what would have…
On the 21st February 2015, after a persistent campaign by the Boomerang Alliance, the NSW government committed to introducing a container deposit scheme (CDS) by mid-2017. The Premier Mike Baird announced he wanted the best practise CDS in the world. For the thousands of people and passionate communities which had lobbied their members of parliament,…
Santa Cruz County Packaging Ordinance, 2001 (12 page pdf)
Plastic Pollution Coalition is a global alliance of individuals, organizations, businesses and policymakers working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, the ocean and the environment. The Plastic Pollution Coalition mission is to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, the ocean and the environment. PPC was…
Did you know you are contributing to marine pollution by washing your clothes? Every wash of synthetic fabrics or composed fabrics (like cotton/polyester) discharges plastic fibers less than a millimeter in length. Wastewater treatment plants let them through. Fibers found on shorelines match with material used in clothing; polyester, acrylic and nylon. The impact of…
