September 10, 2019
The Palm Beach Post, Frank Cerabino, September 9, 2019- If you think it’s high time that Florida gets serious about the environmental hazards posed by single-use plastic bags, straws and polystyrene containers, there’s good news and bad news in recent developments. Mostly bad news. It was nine years ago that the …
September 4, 2019
Keysnews.com Free Press Staff, September 4, 2019- Coral Gables will appeal a recent 3rd District Court of Appeal ruling tossing out the city’s ban on Styrofoam, according to city attorney Miriam Ramos. Monroe County, Islamorada and West Palm Beach have signed an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, brief …
August 26, 2019
Palm Beach Daily News, Editorial, August 25, 2019- A reluctant Town Council recently repealed its forward-thinking ban on plastic bags and polystyrene containers after learning an appellate court sided with the Legislature’s preemption against local bans of plastic bags and polystyrene containers. But the fight is not over, and it …
August 19, 2019
National Geographic, Sarah Gibbens, August 15, 2019- A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people just south of Miami, wants to ban polystyrene from restaurants and …
August 15, 2019
Miami Herald, Bianca Padro Ocasio and Samantha J. Gross August 14, 2019- In a blow to environmentalists and several local governments, a Florida appeals court struck down a Coral Gables ordinance to ban Styrofoam containers from restaurants, supermarkets and other food establishments. The 3rd District Court of Appeals Wednesday rejected …