January 7, 2020
Waste Dive, Katie Pyzyk, January 6, 2020- The Denver City Council recently approved a bill setting a 10-cent fee on each “disposable” plastic and paper bag customers receive from retail stores. The city will receive 6 cents per bag sold to be used for administrative costs and waste reduction programs. Retailers will …
November 7, 2019
Florida Politics, Ryan Nicol, November 6, 2019- Democratic state Reps. Anna Eskamani and Michael Grieco are once again pushing a bill (HB 6043) that would allow local municipalities to ban single-use plastics such as plastic bags. Florida law currently blocks local governments from acting on the issue. “[N]o local government, local governmental agency, or …
September 17, 2019
The Intelligencer, Charles Bolinger, September 16, 2019- As of last month, 300 municipalities across the nation have passed either a single-use bag fee, tax or ban, while state lawmakers have introduced at least 95 bills related to plastic bags so far this year. Bring Your Own Glen-Ed (BYOGE) wants to …
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 …
August 28, 2019
Plastics News, Steve Toloken, August 26, 2019- Large plastic packaging maker Berry Global Group Inc. is coming out against campaigns by its plastics industry peers for state laws that take away the power of local governments to ban or tax packaging. Passing those laws has been an important political priority …