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The industry argued that complying with the legislation would be unfeasible and end up as an added cost to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rules set a deadline of 2030 for several new requirements on manufacturers. First, all of California’s plastic forks, bowls and other utensils that are routinely used once and discarded must be recyclable or compostable; companies must reduce waste from plastic packaging by 75%; and single-use products made from unrecyclable material will be banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With recycling centers \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-13/recycling-crisis-bottle-can-deposit-redemption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing\u003c/a> across the state and China no longer accepting soiled plastic from the U.S., the bill signals a growing recognition from lawmakers that California faces a recycling crisis and pervasive plastic pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed another plastics bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 792\u003c/a>, that establishes a minimum recycled content level in plastic bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Stein, a supervising attorney with UCLA’s environmental law clinic, said \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1080\">AB 1080\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB54\">SB 54 \u003c/a>are attempts to comprehensively address plastic pollution, and that industry groups are concerned California could be a bellwether. “That’s what is spurring the industry opposition to this bill,” Stein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business lobbying has already resulted in changes. Two of the bills’ authors, Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, and Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, released amendments meant to appease critics and reluctant lawmakers who worried the state’s recycling infrastructure could not support the additional materials resulting from the new rules, and who were concerned about a shortage of food-safe plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally, the bill automatically banned a product if a company couldn’t show that the material met the recycling requirements. Now, CalRecycle, the state agency that will administer the rules, must initiate a review process before a product is disallowed. The agency can also issue a penalty of up to $50,000 per day, but can give a company as long as two years to meet the regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Murray, executive director of the environmental advocacy organization Californians Against Waste, which lobbied for the bill, acknowledged the changes were necessary to secure votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel really good about the current administration and the current department, but it does add an additional step, which will add time,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plenty of Opposition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bills’ authors amended the legislation, the California Grocers Association dropped its opposition, the Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-09-04/plastics-single-use-containers-california-recycling-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate organization, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/cpg-industry-calls-on-california-to-pass-workable-recycling-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signaled\u003c/a> it was open to a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1947201\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1947201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harder plastics like milk and detergent containers are sorted, crushed and separated into bales at the Recology recycling center in San Francisco. Photo from Sept. 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Mike Gruber, vice president of government affairs for the group, said it’s unhappy with the recent changes and opposes the bill. “The size and the scope of the bill has dramatically increased,” he said. “We have major concerns about the state’s ability to implement it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group supports recycling goals, Gruber said, “but there needs to be more discussion of California’s broken recycling system, and that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is drawing a lot of attention from outside the state, says Jennie Romer, an attorney with the Surfrider Foundation’s Plastic Pollution Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole country is looking at California to see whether this is going to pass, and there’s a lot riding on it right now,” she said. “The plastic industry is going to go down swinging, for sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1080\">July analysis\u003c/a> of the Assembly bill by a legislative committee on the environment listed opposition from the \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1254509&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Plastics Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1147195&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1254511&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plastics Industry Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1253580&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Bottled Water Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1143117&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Household and Commercial Products Association\u003c/a>, among dozens of other groups, many of which lobbied on the legislation, according to financial activity records filed with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter opposing the bill , the Southwest California Legislative Council, a regional association of business groups, called it a “logistical nightmare” and said it would be “impossible to track products from cradle to the grave.” The group also said the measure would raise the cost of goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Plastics Association dropped its opposition to the bill after the amendments were introduced in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of the bill’s supporters includes Sierra Club California, Natural Resources Defense Council, SEIU, Ocean Conservancy and many other public advocacy groups, as well as city agencies and governmental bodies like the San Francisco Department of the Environment and the Los Angeles City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plastic industry isn’t always arguing in good faith, and that some groups are being deceptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray, of Californians Against Waste, called out one industry-backed organization with a disingenuous name as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, \u003ca href=\"https://www.recycle4ca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Californians for Recyling and the Environment\u003c/a> circulated social media posts with links to a web page promoting the idea that the legislation “threatens to negatively impact the availability, affordability and quality of many products California families rely on for our health and well-being.” The web page includes graphics of baby and pet food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a bridge too far,” Murray said. “In terms of trying to make an argument. Were we unsafe before we didn’t have all this plastic packaging?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s state lobbying \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1420035&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records\u003c/a> names its president as Philip Rozenski, who is also the \u003ca href=\"https://novolex.com/news/novolex-expands-sustainability-and-public-affairs-team/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vice president\u003c/a> of public affairs for \u003ca href=\"https://novolex.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Novolex\u003c/a>, a U.S. manufacturer of plastic packaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rozenski also served as the policy lead for another industry-backed group with a name connoting sustainability. The American Progressive Bag Alliance raised $6.1 million in an unsuccessful fight against a California ban on plastic bags in 2016, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article106779332.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article106779332.html\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An email request to Novolex to speak with Rozenski was answered by a spokesperson for Californians for Recycling and the Environment. Micah Grant said the bill’s recycling targets are “simply infeasible” and that the Legislature should “hit the pause button.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant also referred KQED to a member of the group, William Smart, president of the Southern California Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smart said lawmakers should “slow down” and examine the impacts of the regulations on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African Americans use a lot of these products, and we want to make sure good alternatives are in place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Potashner, director of strategic affairs for Recology, a San Francisco-based waste management company, which \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1147183&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lobbied\u003c/a> for the legislation, said the plastics industry was “throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plastic Pollution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plastic problem extends well beyond the state. Right now, 335 million tons — that’s 670 billion pounds — of plastic are produced each year, and only about 9% is recycled, according to sources compiled in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC Santa Barbara \u003ca href=\"https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> conducted in 2017 found that half of all the plastic ever produced was manufactured in the previous 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plastic is an incredibly durable material. A plastic fork, for example, that makes its way into the ocean will break down over time into bits of confetti-sized-or-smaller scraps of plastic. This microplastic can eventually make its way into the food chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a million seabirds and 100,000 dolphins, seals and other marine mammals are killed every year due to plastic debris in the ocean, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/ioc-oceans/focus-areas/rio-20-ocean/blueprint-for-the-future-we-want/marine-pollution/facts-and-figures-on-marine-pollution/\">United Nations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, researchers found Monterey Bay, long considered to be an environmental success story, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943007/the-new-pollution-monterey-bay-is-swimming-in-microplastic\">full\u003c/a> of microplastic. Researchers also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101871514/study-monterey-bay-infested-by-microplastic-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> scraps of the stuff in Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943187/there-may-be-way-more-plastic-in-your-diet-than-you-thought\">study\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943187/there-may-be-way-more-plastic-in-your-diet-than-you-thought\">, \u003c/a>the average person in the U.S. consumes between 74,000 and 121,000 particles of plastic contained in food and beverages every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nWTa8w3SHc&=&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California lawmakers failed to pass a first-in the nation attempt at requiring plastic manufacturers to take responsibility for the fate of their products. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848333,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1578},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmakers Punt On Landmark Plastic Pollution Bill | KQED","description":"California lawmakers failed to pass a first-in the nation attempt at requiring plastic manufacturers to take responsibility for the fate of their products. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"California Lawmakers Punt On Landmark Plastic Pollution Bill","datePublished":"2019-09-16T19:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:58:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Plastics Recycling","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/09/StarkPlastics2way.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":282,"path":"/science/1947132/california-bill-puts-recycling-onus-on-plastic-manufacturers-theyre-not-happy-about-it","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:00 a.m. Monday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> During the early morning hours Saturday, California’s legislative session ended with lawmakers failing to pass legislation aimed at dramatically reducing plastic pollution from common manufactured goods like utensils, packaging and beverage lids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed legislation, companion bills \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1080\">AB 1080\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB54\">SB 54\u003c/a>, was a first-in-the-nation attempt at requiring plastic manufacturers to take responsibility for the fate of their single-use products, many of which end up in landfills and oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the session ended without lawmakers voting on the measures, they can be taken up again next year, and supporters vowed to pick them back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christy Leavitt, plastics campaign director for Oceana, a major California environmental group, said that it’s time for policymakers and companies to take action to curb the production of plastic items that people use once and toss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a corporate-driven crisis, and it’s up to policymakers to ensure the onus falls on companies to clean it up,” Leavitt said in a statement emailed to reporters. “While today’s lack of action is disappointing, this fight is not over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation would have required companies to ensure that their products are recyclable or else face having them potentially banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was fiercely opposed by industry groups, which saw a threat to their bottom line. The industry argued that complying with the legislation would be unfeasible and end up as an added cost to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rules set a deadline of 2030 for several new requirements on manufacturers. First, all of California’s plastic forks, bowls and other utensils that are routinely used once and discarded must be recyclable or compostable; companies must reduce waste from plastic packaging by 75%; and single-use products made from unrecyclable material will be banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With recycling centers \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-13/recycling-crisis-bottle-can-deposit-redemption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing\u003c/a> across the state and China no longer accepting soiled plastic from the U.S., the bill signals a growing recognition from lawmakers that California faces a recycling crisis and pervasive plastic pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed another plastics bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 792\u003c/a>, that establishes a minimum recycled content level in plastic bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Stein, a supervising attorney with UCLA’s environmental law clinic, said \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1080\">AB 1080\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB54\">SB 54 \u003c/a>are attempts to comprehensively address plastic pollution, and that industry groups are concerned California could be a bellwether. “That’s what is spurring the industry opposition to this bill,” Stein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business lobbying has already resulted in changes. Two of the bills’ authors, Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, and Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, released amendments meant to appease critics and reluctant lawmakers who worried the state’s recycling infrastructure could not support the additional materials resulting from the new rules, and who were concerned about a shortage of food-safe plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally, the bill automatically banned a product if a company couldn’t show that the material met the recycling requirements. Now, CalRecycle, the state agency that will administer the rules, must initiate a review process before a product is disallowed. The agency can also issue a penalty of up to $50,000 per day, but can give a company as long as two years to meet the regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Murray, executive director of the environmental advocacy organization Californians Against Waste, which lobbied for the bill, acknowledged the changes were necessary to secure votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel really good about the current administration and the current department, but it does add an additional step, which will add time,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plenty of Opposition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bills’ authors amended the legislation, the California Grocers Association dropped its opposition, the Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-09-04/plastics-single-use-containers-california-recycling-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate organization, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/cpg-industry-calls-on-california-to-pass-workable-recycling-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signaled\u003c/a> it was open to a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1947201\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1947201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Plastic-recycling.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harder plastics like milk and detergent containers are sorted, crushed and separated into bales at the Recology recycling center in San Francisco. Photo from Sept. 6, 2019 \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Mike Gruber, vice president of government affairs for the group, said it’s unhappy with the recent changes and opposes the bill. “The size and the scope of the bill has dramatically increased,” he said. “We have major concerns about the state’s ability to implement it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group supports recycling goals, Gruber said, “but there needs to be more discussion of California’s broken recycling system, and that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is drawing a lot of attention from outside the state, says Jennie Romer, an attorney with the Surfrider Foundation’s Plastic Pollution Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole country is looking at California to see whether this is going to pass, and there’s a lot riding on it right now,” she said. “The plastic industry is going to go down swinging, for sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1080\">July analysis\u003c/a> of the Assembly bill by a legislative committee on the environment listed opposition from the \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1254509&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Plastics Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1147195&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1254511&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plastics Industry Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1253580&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Bottled Water Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1143117&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Household and Commercial Products Association\u003c/a>, among dozens of other groups, many of which lobbied on the legislation, according to financial activity records filed with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter opposing the bill , the Southwest California Legislative Council, a regional association of business groups, called it a “logistical nightmare” and said it would be “impossible to track products from cradle to the grave.” The group also said the measure would raise the cost of goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Plastics Association dropped its opposition to the bill after the amendments were introduced in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of the bill’s supporters includes Sierra Club California, Natural Resources Defense Council, SEIU, Ocean Conservancy and many other public advocacy groups, as well as city agencies and governmental bodies like the San Francisco Department of the Environment and the Los Angeles City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plastic industry isn’t always arguing in good faith, and that some groups are being deceptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray, of Californians Against Waste, called out one industry-backed organization with a disingenuous name as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, \u003ca href=\"https://www.recycle4ca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Californians for Recyling and the Environment\u003c/a> circulated social media posts with links to a web page promoting the idea that the legislation “threatens to negatively impact the availability, affordability and quality of many products California families rely on for our health and well-being.” The web page includes graphics of baby and pet food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a bridge too far,” Murray said. “In terms of trying to make an argument. Were we unsafe before we didn’t have all this plastic packaging?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s state lobbying \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1420035&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records\u003c/a> names its president as Philip Rozenski, who is also the \u003ca href=\"https://novolex.com/news/novolex-expands-sustainability-and-public-affairs-team/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vice president\u003c/a> of public affairs for \u003ca href=\"https://novolex.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Novolex\u003c/a>, a U.S. manufacturer of plastic packaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rozenski also served as the policy lead for another industry-backed group with a name connoting sustainability. The American Progressive Bag Alliance raised $6.1 million in an unsuccessful fight against a California ban on plastic bags in 2016, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article106779332.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article106779332.html\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An email request to Novolex to speak with Rozenski was answered by a spokesperson for Californians for Recycling and the Environment. Micah Grant said the bill’s recycling targets are “simply infeasible” and that the Legislature should “hit the pause button.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant also referred KQED to a member of the group, William Smart, president of the Southern California Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smart said lawmakers should “slow down” and examine the impacts of the regulations on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“African Americans use a lot of these products, and we want to make sure good alternatives are in place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Potashner, director of strategic affairs for Recology, a San Francisco-based waste management company, which \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1147183&session=2019&view=activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lobbied\u003c/a> for the legislation, said the plastics industry was “throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plastic Pollution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plastic problem extends well beyond the state. Right now, 335 million tons — that’s 670 billion pounds — of plastic are produced each year, and only about 9% is recycled, according to sources compiled in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC Santa Barbara \u003ca href=\"https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> conducted in 2017 found that half of all the plastic ever produced was manufactured in the previous 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plastic is an incredibly durable material. A plastic fork, for example, that makes its way into the ocean will break down over time into bits of confetti-sized-or-smaller scraps of plastic. This microplastic can eventually make its way into the food chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a million seabirds and 100,000 dolphins, seals and other marine mammals are killed every year due to plastic debris in the ocean, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/ioc-oceans/focus-areas/rio-20-ocean/blueprint-for-the-future-we-want/marine-pollution/facts-and-figures-on-marine-pollution/\">United Nations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, researchers found Monterey Bay, long considered to be an environmental success story, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943007/the-new-pollution-monterey-bay-is-swimming-in-microplastic\">full\u003c/a> of microplastic. Researchers also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101871514/study-monterey-bay-infested-by-microplastic-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> scraps of the stuff in Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943187/there-may-be-way-more-plastic-in-your-diet-than-you-thought\">study\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943187/there-may-be-way-more-plastic-in-your-diet-than-you-thought\">, \u003c/a>the average person in the U.S. consumes between 74,000 and 121,000 particles of plastic contained in food and beverages every year.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4nWTa8w3SHc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4nWTa8w3SHc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1947132/california-bill-puts-recycling-onus-on-plastic-manufacturers-theyre-not-happy-about-it","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_35","science_40","science_2873","science_98"],"tags":["science_3832","science_1189"],"featImg":"science_1947200","label":"source_science_1947132"},"science_1947320":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1947320","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1947320","score":null,"sort":[1568656827000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-lawmaker-introduces-recycling-bill-with-relief-for-grocers","title":"Legislature Passes Bill to Shore Up State's Recycling Centers","publishDate":1568656827,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Legislature Passes Bill to Shore Up State’s Recycling Centers | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:00 a.m. Monday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> An emergency recycling bill introduced by San Francisco Assemblyman Phil Ting passed the Legislature Friday and was sent to Governor Gavin Newsom. Ting introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 54\u003c/a> with five days before the end of the session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting says the bill will bring temporary relief to cities, grocers and small convenience stores that have been pinched by the abrupt closing of recycling centers across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post 6:00 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12:\u003c/strong> “People are lining up at different recycling facilities,” he said. “They are waiting for hours at a time and are unable to redeem their aluminum cans, their bottles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill provides $5 million to launch recycling trucks (“mobile recycling centers,” in legislative parlance) and $5 million to shore up existing recycling programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting introduced the proposal during the hurried last week of the legislative session in Sacramento, while lawmakers wrangled votes for sweeping new plastic regulations, including those proposed in another of his measures, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 792,\u003c/a> which also passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739302/a-future-with-100-recycled-beverage-bottles-a-new-state-bill-would-require-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> establishes a minimum level of recycled content in plastic bottles. Newsom has until October 13 to sign both bills.\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/PhilTing/status/1173379446721507329?s=20\u003cbr>\nThe Legislature did not vote on a high profile\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1947132/california-bill-puts-recycling-onus-on-plastic-manufacturers-theyre-not-happy-about-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> plan\u003c/a> to require manufacturers of single-use plastic to take responsibility for the fate of their products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups lobbied hard against the bill, and supporters promised to push the measure next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recycling Center Closings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, rePlanet, California’s largest operator of recycling centers closed 284 facilities and laid off 750 employees. The shutdowns resulted in the state losing nearly a fifth of its redemption centers in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-13/recycling-crisis-bottle-can-deposit-redemption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">single day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company cited economic pressures, including the plummeting value price of aluminum and recycled plastics, as a reason for going out of business. In the past, recycling centers bundled materials and resold them, often overseas to China, but that country is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/28/623972937/china-has-refused-to-recycle-the-wests-plastics-what-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refusing\u003c/a> much of the plastic from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A powerful environmental advocacy organization on the issue of recycling, Californians Against Waste, opposed Ting’s plan. A memo from the group said the bill doesn’t address the root causes of recycling center closings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grocers and Recycling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California collects a 5 or 10 cent deposit that consumers pay on cans and bottles. Consumers who bring their used cans and bottles to recycling centers can get that money back, and the state uses these funds to pay for recycling programs.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Bottle Bill from 1986 created half-mile areas around grocery stores where consumers can redeem their deposits (3 miles for rural areas). If a recycling center doesn’t exist inside of one of these convenience zones, then any business that sells soda, beer and other beverages in bottles and cans is mandated to take empties from consumers or pay a $100-a-day waiver. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure of recycling centers created an issue for stores that were not prepared to absorb people’s bottles but were suddenly required to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Ting’s plan, grocers won’t have to pay the fee until March 1, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Grocers Association supported Ting’s proposal. Ron Fong, the group’s president and CEO, said the state’s recycling system is outdated and needs to be fixed. He hopes the mobile recycling centers will give people more opportunity to redeem their deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred dollars a day is onerous and small grocery stores cannot afford to pay it,” he said. “It’s not the grocers fault that rePlanet decided to close the centers, but we are left holding the bag. This gives us a reprieve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, consumer advocates have long criticized big grocers for not accepting recycling, even before rePlanet shuttered all its recycling centers in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Consumer Watchdog \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/24/consumer-group-says-66-of-stores-names-you-know-refused-to-accept-empty-cans-and-bottles-for-recycling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveyed\u003c/a> 50 Los Angeles-area businesses, including Rite Aid, Ralphs, Vons, Pavilions, Albertsons, and others, and found that two-thirds of the companies refused to redeem the deposits they are legally required to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislative deadline for lawmakers to introduce new bills passed months ago, but Ting removed the text of different, unrelated bill and rewrote it, a procedure called gut-and-amend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, says the bills amount to a corporate giveaway because they would release retail stores from their legal recycling requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article234899717.html\">editorial\u003c/a> published in the Sacramento Bee, Court argues that Ting’s bill is filled with “rotten scraps of failed legislation the grocers lobby packed into” a last-minute bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argues that Californians pay \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/watchdog-report-finds-california-consumers-lose-half-every-nickel-bottle-deposit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.5 billion each year\u003c/a> for bottle and can deposits, but they only get about half of that money back. When no recycling centers are close, grocers should be the ones that redeem. “Too often,” she said, “they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Along with $10 million for recycling centers, the bill gives grocers a temporary reprieve from fees. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848335,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":836},"headData":{"title":"Legislature Passes Bill to Shore Up State's Recycling Centers | KQED","description":"Along with $10 million for recycling centers, the bill gives grocers a temporary reprieve from fees. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Legislature Passes Bill to Shore Up State's Recycling Centers","datePublished":"2019-09-16T18:00:27.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:58:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Recycling","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1947320/bay-area-lawmaker-introduces-recycling-bill-with-relief-for-grocers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:00 a.m. Monday, Sept. 16:\u003c/strong> An emergency recycling bill introduced by San Francisco Assemblyman Phil Ting passed the Legislature Friday and was sent to Governor Gavin Newsom. Ting introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 54\u003c/a> with five days before the end of the session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting says the bill will bring temporary relief to cities, grocers and small convenience stores that have been pinched by the abrupt closing of recycling centers across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post 6:00 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12:\u003c/strong> “People are lining up at different recycling facilities,” he said. “They are waiting for hours at a time and are unable to redeem their aluminum cans, their bottles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill provides $5 million to launch recycling trucks (“mobile recycling centers,” in legislative parlance) and $5 million to shore up existing recycling programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting introduced the proposal during the hurried last week of the legislative session in Sacramento, while lawmakers wrangled votes for sweeping new plastic regulations, including those proposed in another of his measures, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 792,\u003c/a> which also passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739302/a-future-with-100-recycled-beverage-bottles-a-new-state-bill-would-require-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> establishes a minimum level of recycled content in plastic bottles. Newsom has until October 13 to sign both bills.\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1173379446721507329"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe Legislature did not vote on a high profile\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1947132/california-bill-puts-recycling-onus-on-plastic-manufacturers-theyre-not-happy-about-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> plan\u003c/a> to require manufacturers of single-use plastic to take responsibility for the fate of their products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups lobbied hard against the bill, and supporters promised to push the measure next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recycling Center Closings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, rePlanet, California’s largest operator of recycling centers closed 284 facilities and laid off 750 employees. The shutdowns resulted in the state losing nearly a fifth of its redemption centers in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-13/recycling-crisis-bottle-can-deposit-redemption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">single day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company cited economic pressures, including the plummeting value price of aluminum and recycled plastics, as a reason for going out of business. In the past, recycling centers bundled materials and resold them, often overseas to China, but that country is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/28/623972937/china-has-refused-to-recycle-the-wests-plastics-what-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refusing\u003c/a> much of the plastic from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A powerful environmental advocacy organization on the issue of recycling, Californians Against Waste, opposed Ting’s plan. A memo from the group said the bill doesn’t address the root causes of recycling center closings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grocers and Recycling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California collects a 5 or 10 cent deposit that consumers pay on cans and bottles. Consumers who bring their used cans and bottles to recycling centers can get that money back, and the state uses these funds to pay for recycling programs.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Bottle Bill from 1986 created half-mile areas around grocery stores where consumers can redeem their deposits (3 miles for rural areas). If a recycling center doesn’t exist inside of one of these convenience zones, then any business that sells soda, beer and other beverages in bottles and cans is mandated to take empties from consumers or pay a $100-a-day waiver. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure of recycling centers created an issue for stores that were not prepared to absorb people’s bottles but were suddenly required to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Ting’s plan, grocers won’t have to pay the fee until March 1, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Grocers Association supported Ting’s proposal. Ron Fong, the group’s president and CEO, said the state’s recycling system is outdated and needs to be fixed. He hopes the mobile recycling centers will give people more opportunity to redeem their deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred dollars a day is onerous and small grocery stores cannot afford to pay it,” he said. “It’s not the grocers fault that rePlanet decided to close the centers, but we are left holding the bag. This gives us a reprieve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, consumer advocates have long criticized big grocers for not accepting recycling, even before rePlanet shuttered all its recycling centers in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Consumer Watchdog \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/24/consumer-group-says-66-of-stores-names-you-know-refused-to-accept-empty-cans-and-bottles-for-recycling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveyed\u003c/a> 50 Los Angeles-area businesses, including Rite Aid, Ralphs, Vons, Pavilions, Albertsons, and others, and found that two-thirds of the companies refused to redeem the deposits they are legally required to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislative deadline for lawmakers to introduce new bills passed months ago, but Ting removed the text of different, unrelated bill and rewrote it, a procedure called gut-and-amend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, says the bills amount to a corporate giveaway because they would release retail stores from their legal recycling requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article234899717.html\">editorial\u003c/a> published in the Sacramento Bee, Court argues that Ting’s bill is filled with “rotten scraps of failed legislation the grocers lobby packed into” a last-minute bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argues that Californians pay \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/watchdog-report-finds-california-consumers-lose-half-every-nickel-bottle-deposit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.5 billion each year\u003c/a> for bottle and can deposits, but they only get about half of that money back. When no recycling centers are close, grocers should be the ones that redeem. “Too often,” she said, “they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1947320/bay-area-lawmaker-introduces-recycling-bill-with-relief-for-grocers","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_35","science_36","science_39","science_40"],"tags":["science_3840","science_3370","science_1189","science_269"],"featImg":"science_1947347","label":"source_science_1947320"},"science_1946100":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1946100","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1946100","score":null,"sort":[1564787247000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-airport-bans-the-sale-of-plastic-water-bottles","title":"San Francisco Airport Bans the Sale of Plastic Water Bottles","publishDate":1564787247,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Francisco Airport Bans the Sale of Plastic Water Bottles | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unprecedented move at one of the major airports in the country will take effect Aug. 20, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/No-fly-zone-SFO-bans-sale-of-plastic-water-14274754.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rule will apply to airport restaurants, cafes and vending machines. Travelers who need plain water will have to buy refillable aluminum or glass bottles if they don’t bring their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a department of San Francisco’s municipal government, the airport is following an ordinance approved in 2014 banning the sale of plastic water bottles on city-owned property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift away from plastics is also part of a broader plan to slash net carbon emissions and energy use to zero and eliminate most landfill waste by 2021, said airport spokesman Doug Yakel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, considering the approximately 4 million plastic water bottles sold per year at the airport, it may be more difficult for vendors to adhere to the water bottle ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether vendors out of compliance will be penalized is unclear, but Yakel said the airport hopes that “won’t be necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO vendors already are required to provide only compostable single-use foodware, including to-go containers, condiment packets, straws and utensils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shops at the airports have adjusted easily to these requirements because of the increased availability of suppliers producing such products, said Michael Levine, CEO of the company that oversees Napa Farms Market, a store selling grab-and-go fare in Terminal 2 and International Terminal G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the water bottle impact is a little trickier,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"div-gpt-ad-1470255291270-0\" class=\"DFPSlot\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"SFO's ban will take effect on Aug. 20 and apply to airport restaurants, cafes and vending machines.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848442,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":272},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Airport Bans the Sale of Plastic Water Bottles | KQED","description":"SFO's ban will take effect on Aug. 20 and apply to airport restaurants, cafes and vending machines.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"San Francisco Airport Bans the Sale of Plastic Water Bottles","datePublished":"2019-08-02T23:07:27.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T01:00:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Associated Press","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Associated Press","path":"/science/1946100/san-francisco-airport-bans-the-sale-of-plastic-water-bottles","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unprecedented move at one of the major airports in the country will take effect Aug. 20, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/No-fly-zone-SFO-bans-sale-of-plastic-water-14274754.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rule will apply to airport restaurants, cafes and vending machines. Travelers who need plain water will have to buy refillable aluminum or glass bottles if they don’t bring their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a department of San Francisco’s municipal government, the airport is following an ordinance approved in 2014 banning the sale of plastic water bottles on city-owned property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift away from plastics is also part of a broader plan to slash net carbon emissions and energy use to zero and eliminate most landfill waste by 2021, said airport spokesman Doug Yakel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, considering the approximately 4 million plastic water bottles sold per year at the airport, it may be more difficult for vendors to adhere to the water bottle ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether vendors out of compliance will be penalized is unclear, but Yakel said the airport hopes that “won’t be necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFO vendors already are required to provide only compostable single-use foodware, including to-go containers, condiment packets, straws and utensils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shops at the airports have adjusted easily to these requirements because of the increased availability of suppliers producing such products, said Michael Levine, CEO of the company that oversees Napa Farms Market, a store selling grab-and-go fare in Terminal 2 and International Terminal G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the water bottle impact is a little trickier,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"div-gpt-ad-1470255291270-0\" class=\"DFPSlot\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1946100/san-francisco-airport-bans-the-sale-of-plastic-water-bottles","authors":["byline_science_1946100"],"categories":["science_35","science_36","science_39","science_40"],"tags":["science_4081","science_3370","science_3838","science_1189"],"featImg":"science_1946102","label":"source_science_1946100"},"science_1943483":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1943483","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1943483","score":null,"sort":[1560885909000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-company-wants-to-replace-plastics-in-textiles-by-using-bacteria","title":"Bay Area Company Wants to Replace Plastics in Textiles by Using Bacteria","publishDate":1560885909,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Company Wants to Replace Plastics in Textiles by Using Bacteria | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>If civilizations are remembered for what they leave behind, our time might be labeled the Plastic Age. Plastic can endure for centuries. It’s everywhere, even in our clothes, from polyester leisure suits to fleece jackets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Silicon Valley startup is trying to get the plastic out of clothing and put something else in: biopolymers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A polymer is a long-chain molecule made of lots of identical units. Polymers are durable and often elastic. Plastic is a polymer made from petroleum products. But biopolymers occur often in nature — cellulose in wood or silk from silkworms — and unlike plastic, they can be broken down into natural materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly Morse manufactures biopolymers that she hopes will replace some kinds of plastic. She runs a small company called Mango Materials. Mango is her favorite fruit, and she wanted her company to sound different from other tech enterprises in the San Francisco Bay Area. “We’re not your typical Silicon Valley startup company,” Morse says. “We’re manufacturing polymers at a waste-water treatment plant. We’re not a bunch of guys in a garage coding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did she end up making bioplastic at a sewage treatment plant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morse says it started when she was in elementary school. She went to an aquarium and stumbled on an exhibit about plastic trash floating in the ocean. “There was this huge, gigantic-like fish-tank-type structure full of clamshells, like [plastic foam] clamshells from McDonald’s,” she recalls. “And I was floored … completely horrified. It changed my life and I was like, that is freaking ridiculous, and I’m going to change it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21550 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representing the Pacific Gyre, a suspended ceiling of plastic trash floats over the heads of viewers at “Washed Ashore” exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo. (Sharol Nelson/Embry)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She followed through. She went to Stanford University and got a doctorate in environmental engineering. At a scientific conference in 2006, she met another young engineer, Anne Schauer-Gimenez. “I think we were up to like 4 in the morning or something,” Schauer-Gimenez says, “just talking about research and how this process works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process was how to manufacture biopolymers — using bacteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are certain kinds of bacteria that eat methane. The bacteria use it to make their own biopolymers in their cells, especially if you feed them well. “If we were to get really fat from eating a lot of ice cream or chocolate,” Morse explains, “we’d accumulate fat inside our bodies. These bacteria, same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schauer-Gimenez adds: “To me, microorganisms kind of run the show on planet Earth anyway, so why not let them help us with this process?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make biopolymers, the bacteria need lots of food. That’s why Mango Materials set up a field site at a sewage treatment plant called Silicon Valley Clean Water in Redwood City, Calif., next to the San Francisco Bay. They got funding from the National Science Foundation, among other backers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation='Molly Morse']‘And I was floored … completely horrified. It changed my life and I was like, that is freaking ridiculous, and I’m going to change it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sewage, or at least the methane gas that sewage emits, is food for bacteria. Treatment plants usually burn off the methane or just vent it into the air. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming when it goes into the atmosphere. Mango feeds it to the bacteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s done in a fermenter set up outside, nestled between big steel tanks full of sewage. Engineer Allison Pieja, a third member of the Mango leadership team, shows off their invention. It looks kind of like a big beer keg with pipes sticking in it like intravenous drips. “This is where the magic happens,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pieja is the bug expert at Mango. “We add the methane and oxygen continuously and kind of drip in our secret sauce based on how the bacteria are growing,” she says. The secret sauce is an additive the team developed to keep the process going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, when the bacteria are fattened up, the team breaks them open and harvests the biopolymer. They dry it and turn it into pellets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, they’ve shipped almost 2,000 pounds of their biopolymer to companies interested in using it. Their principal target market is textiles (though they say the biopolymer works for packaging, too). They’ve produced brightly colored threads that look and feel “plasticky,” like polyester maybe. The hope is to weave the biopolymer into clothing to replace plastics in textiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1943493\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1943493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/pha-knitted-sleeve_cut-800x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/pha-knitted-sleeve_cut.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/pha-knitted-sleeve_cut-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/pha-knitted-sleeve_cut-768x575.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sleeve made from biopolymer for clothing. The Mango team is working with several companies to test how well their biopolymer will work in textiles. \u003ccite>(Chris Joyce/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would be biodegradable clothing, which Schauer-Gimenez says freaks people out. ” ‘Oh my gosh, you’re going to make a swimsuit out of your material? I’m going into the ocean and it’s going to biodegrade off my body!’ And I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, it doesn’t quite work like that.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To degrade, biopolymers need warm temperatures and the right bacteria around to chew them up, and the process takes weeks or months of constant exposure. Morse acknowledges that if conditions aren’t right, though — say in a dry Arizona desert or at the bottom of the ocean — it will take longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the drawbacks of biopolymers so far; some haven’t lived up to their promise to biodegrade quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biology professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.citadel.edu/root/biology-facultystaff/47-academics/schools/ssm/biology/2436-weinstein-bio\">John Weinstein\u003c/a> at The Citadel in South Carolina put corn-based polymer bags in a wetland and found they degraded even more slowly than regular plastic bags. “You’ve created a new material,” he says of the bioplastic, “but how does it break down? I was surprised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government and the state of California have penalized companies for selling biodegradable “plastic” that actually takes years to break down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making a statement — ‘biodegradable’ — that is misleading, especially to the general public,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.egr.msu.edu/people/profile/narayan\">Ramani Narayan\u003c/a>, a chemical engineer at Michigan State University and an expert on bioplastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s all about the environmental conditions. And the longer something takes to biodegrade, the longer it’s litter. “In that intervening period, it is going to have impacts, and that is what needs to be carefully considered,” Narayan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, a big market in biopolymers made from feedstocks such as corn could raise food prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Schauer-Gimenez']‘To me, microorganisms kind of run the show on planet Earth anyway, so why not let them help us with this process?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plant-based biopolymers can be composted at an industrial facility that uses high heat and pressure. But Narayan points out that the industry in the U.S. is in its infancy. As for recycling them, he says the recycling industry is already overwhelmed. The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest figures, for 2015, show only 9.1% of U.S. plastic waste was recycled. That number is thought to be even lower now that China and other countries have stopped recycling the waste — as little as 2.2% is recycled in the U.S., according to research by engineer Jan Dell, founder of the anti-pollution group The Last Beach Cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have the right waste management infrastructure in play” to recycle new plastic replacements, Narayan says, “then all the things we do at the top end of it is going to be useless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team at Mango Materials says their material (a form of polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA) is different from most biopolymers and doesn’t need to be recycled, but will biodegrade in a month or two in the right conditions. Their products are currently being tested independently to confirm that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morse acknowledges there’s a lot more to do to pave the way for biopolymers, and she urges people to use less plastic and reuse things instead of throwing them away. But she’s following that childhood dream — to find something better than plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wouldn’t be [doing this] unless we firmly believed that this is a solution to a massive global problem,” Morse says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A problem that won’t go away on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Replacing+Plastic%3A+Can+Bacteria+Help+Us+Break+The+Habit%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a \"natural\" plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them. 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Plastic can endure for centuries. It’s everywhere, even in our clothes, from polyester leisure suits to fleece jackets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Silicon Valley startup is trying to get the plastic out of clothing and put something else in: biopolymers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A polymer is a long-chain molecule made of lots of identical units. Polymers are durable and often elastic. Plastic is a polymer made from petroleum products. But biopolymers occur often in nature — cellulose in wood or silk from silkworms — and unlike plastic, they can be broken down into natural materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly Morse manufactures biopolymers that she hopes will replace some kinds of plastic. She runs a small company called Mango Materials. Mango is her favorite fruit, and she wanted her company to sound different from other tech enterprises in the San Francisco Bay Area. “We’re not your typical Silicon Valley startup company,” Morse says. “We’re manufacturing polymers at a waste-water treatment plant. 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It changed my life and I was like, that is freaking ridiculous, and I’m going to change it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21550 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representing the Pacific Gyre, a suspended ceiling of plastic trash floats over the heads of viewers at “Washed Ashore” exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo. (Sharol Nelson/Embry)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She followed through. She went to Stanford University and got a doctorate in environmental engineering. At a scientific conference in 2006, she met another young engineer, Anne Schauer-Gimenez. “I think we were up to like 4 in the morning or something,” Schauer-Gimenez says, “just talking about research and how this process works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process was how to manufacture biopolymers — using bacteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are certain kinds of bacteria that eat methane. The bacteria use it to make their own biopolymers in their cells, especially if you feed them well. “If we were to get really fat from eating a lot of ice cream or chocolate,” Morse explains, “we’d accumulate fat inside our bodies. These bacteria, same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schauer-Gimenez adds: “To me, microorganisms kind of run the show on planet Earth anyway, so why not let them help us with this process?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make biopolymers, the bacteria need lots of food. That’s why Mango Materials set up a field site at a sewage treatment plant called Silicon Valley Clean Water in Redwood City, Calif., next to the San Francisco Bay. They got funding from the National Science Foundation, among other backers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘And I was floored … completely horrified. It changed my life and I was like, that is freaking ridiculous, and I’m going to change it.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Molly Morse","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sewage, or at least the methane gas that sewage emits, is food for bacteria. Treatment plants usually burn off the methane or just vent it into the air. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming when it goes into the atmosphere. Mango feeds it to the bacteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s done in a fermenter set up outside, nestled between big steel tanks full of sewage. Engineer Allison Pieja, a third member of the Mango leadership team, shows off their invention. It looks kind of like a big beer keg with pipes sticking in it like intravenous drips. “This is where the magic happens,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pieja is the bug expert at Mango. “We add the methane and oxygen continuously and kind of drip in our secret sauce based on how the bacteria are growing,” she says. The secret sauce is an additive the team developed to keep the process going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, when the bacteria are fattened up, the team breaks them open and harvests the biopolymer. They dry it and turn it into pellets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, they’ve shipped almost 2,000 pounds of their biopolymer to companies interested in using it. Their principal target market is textiles (though they say the biopolymer works for packaging, too). They’ve produced brightly colored threads that look and feel “plasticky,” like polyester maybe. The hope is to weave the biopolymer into clothing to replace plastics in textiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1943493\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1943493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/pha-knitted-sleeve_cut-800x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/pha-knitted-sleeve_cut.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/pha-knitted-sleeve_cut-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/pha-knitted-sleeve_cut-768x575.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sleeve made from biopolymer for clothing. The Mango team is working with several companies to test how well their biopolymer will work in textiles. \u003ccite>(Chris Joyce/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It would be biodegradable clothing, which Schauer-Gimenez says freaks people out. ” ‘Oh my gosh, you’re going to make a swimsuit out of your material? I’m going into the ocean and it’s going to biodegrade off my body!’ And I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, it doesn’t quite work like that.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To degrade, biopolymers need warm temperatures and the right bacteria around to chew them up, and the process takes weeks or months of constant exposure. Morse acknowledges that if conditions aren’t right, though — say in a dry Arizona desert or at the bottom of the ocean — it will take longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the drawbacks of biopolymers so far; some haven’t lived up to their promise to biodegrade quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biology professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.citadel.edu/root/biology-facultystaff/47-academics/schools/ssm/biology/2436-weinstein-bio\">John Weinstein\u003c/a> at The Citadel in South Carolina put corn-based polymer bags in a wetland and found they degraded even more slowly than regular plastic bags. “You’ve created a new material,” he says of the bioplastic, “but how does it break down? I was surprised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government and the state of California have penalized companies for selling biodegradable “plastic” that actually takes years to break down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making a statement — ‘biodegradable’ — that is misleading, especially to the general public,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.egr.msu.edu/people/profile/narayan\">Ramani Narayan\u003c/a>, a chemical engineer at Michigan State University and an expert on bioplastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s all about the environmental conditions. And the longer something takes to biodegrade, the longer it’s litter. “In that intervening period, it is going to have impacts, and that is what needs to be carefully considered,” Narayan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, a big market in biopolymers made from feedstocks such as corn could raise food prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘To me, microorganisms kind of run the show on planet Earth anyway, so why not let them help us with this process?’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Schauer-Gimenez","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plant-based biopolymers can be composted at an industrial facility that uses high heat and pressure. But Narayan points out that the industry in the U.S. is in its infancy. As for recycling them, he says the recycling industry is already overwhelmed. The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest figures, for 2015, show only 9.1% of U.S. plastic waste was recycled. That number is thought to be even lower now that China and other countries have stopped recycling the waste — as little as 2.2% is recycled in the U.S., according to research by engineer Jan Dell, founder of the anti-pollution group The Last Beach Cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have the right waste management infrastructure in play” to recycle new plastic replacements, Narayan says, “then all the things we do at the top end of it is going to be useless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team at Mango Materials says their material (a form of polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA) is different from most biopolymers and doesn’t need to be recycled, but will biodegrade in a month or two in the right conditions. Their products are currently being tested independently to confirm that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morse acknowledges there’s a lot more to do to pave the way for biopolymers, and she urges people to use less plastic and reuse things instead of throwing them away. But she’s following that childhood dream — to find something better than plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wouldn’t be [doing this] unless we firmly believed that this is a solution to a massive global problem,” Morse says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A problem that won’t go away on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Replacing+Plastic%3A+Can+Bacteria+Help+Us+Break+The+Habit%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1943483/bay-area-company-wants-to-replace-plastics-in-textiles-by-using-bacteria","authors":["byline_science_1943483"],"categories":["science_30","science_35","science_40"],"tags":["science_246","science_3838","science_1189","science_968"],"featImg":"science_1943484","label":"source_science_1943483"},"science_1939310":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1939310","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1939310","score":null,"sort":[1552952899000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"nothing-but-nonstop-plastic-found-in-stomach-of-dead-whale","title":"'Nothing But Nonstop Plastic' Found in Stomach of Dead Whale","publishDate":1552952899,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Nothing But Nonstop Plastic’ Found in Stomach of Dead Whale | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:44 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrell Blatchley received a call from the Philippines’ Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources early Friday morning reporting that it had a young Cuvier’s beaked whale that was weak and vomiting blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a few hours it was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blatchley, a marine biologist and environmentalist based in the Philippine city of Davao, gathered his team to drive two hours to where the whale had washed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the necropsy was performed, Blatchley told NPR, he was not prepared for the amount of plastic they found in the whale’s stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was full of plastic — nothing but nonstop plastic,” he said. “It was compact to the point that its stomach was literally as hard as a baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means that this animal has been suffering not for days or weeks but for months or even a year or more,” Blatchley added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that among the 88 pounds of plastic were 16 rice sacks — similar to potato sacks — and plastic bags from local Philippine grocery chains, Gaisano Capital and Gaisano grocery outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blatchley is the founder and owner of the D’ Bone Collector Museum, a natural history museum in Davao. In the coming days, the museum will post a list of all the items found in the whale’s system, the museum said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2689346287758609&id=216407245052538\">a post\u003c/a> on its Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blatchley and his team work with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and other organizations to assist in rescue and recovery of marine animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within the last 10 years, we have recovered 61 whales and dolphins just within the Davao Gulf,” he said. “Of them, 57 have died due to man — whether they ingested plastic or fishing nets or other waste, or gotten caught in pollution — and four were pregnant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019 alone, Blatchley said, he and his team have found three whales or dolphins with plastic waste in their systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Philippines has been deemed one of the “\u003ca href=\"https://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/coraltriangle/?329831/The-scourge-of-single-use-plastic-in-the-Philippines\">world’s leading plastic polluters\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://web.unep.org/unepmap/un-declares-war-ocean-plastic\">U.N. Environment Programme\u003c/a>, some 9 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://oceanconservancy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/full-report-stemming-the.pdf\">2017 study\u003c/a> from the environmental group Ocean Conservancy, more than half of that waste comes from just five countries in East and Southeast Asia — China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that more than half a million metric tons of plastic waste from the Philippines makes it into the ocean each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blatchley said he hoped that the latest incident with the Cuvier’s beaked whale would launch the issue of plastic pollution in the Philippines, and across the globe, to the forefront.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote]“If we keep going this way, it will be more uncommon to see an animal die of natural causes than it is to see an animal die of plastic.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we keep going this way, it will be more uncommon to see an animal die of natural causes than it is to see an animal die of plastic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Stomach+Of+Dead+Whale+Contained+%27Nothing+But+Nonstop+Plastic%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the Philippines, marine biologist Darrell Blatchley recovered the body of a young whale that showed signs of emaciation and dehydration due to the 88 pounds of plastic it had ingested.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848790,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":546},"headData":{"title":"'Nothing But Nonstop Plastic' Found in Stomach of Dead Whale | KQED","description":"In the Philippines, marine biologist Darrell Blatchley recovered the body of a young whale that showed signs of emaciation and dehydration due to the 88 pounds of plastic it had ingested.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"'Nothing But Nonstop Plastic' Found in Stomach of Dead Whale","datePublished":"2019-03-18T23:48:19.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T01:06:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"NPR","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Dalia Mortada\u003cbr />NPR","nprImageAgency":"AFP/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"704471596","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=704471596&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/18/704471596/stomach-of-dead-whale-contained-nothing-but-plastic?ft=nprml&f=704471596","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:55:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:06:34 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:55:23 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/science/1939310/nothing-but-nonstop-plastic-found-in-stomach-of-dead-whale","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:44 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrell Blatchley received a call from the Philippines’ Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources early Friday morning reporting that it had a young Cuvier’s beaked whale that was weak and vomiting blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a few hours it was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blatchley, a marine biologist and environmentalist based in the Philippine city of Davao, gathered his team to drive two hours to where the whale had washed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the necropsy was performed, Blatchley told NPR, he was not prepared for the amount of plastic they found in the whale’s stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was full of plastic — nothing but nonstop plastic,” he said. “It was compact to the point that its stomach was literally as hard as a baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means that this animal has been suffering not for days or weeks but for months or even a year or more,” Blatchley added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that among the 88 pounds of plastic were 16 rice sacks — similar to potato sacks — and plastic bags from local Philippine grocery chains, Gaisano Capital and Gaisano grocery outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blatchley is the founder and owner of the D’ Bone Collector Museum, a natural history museum in Davao. In the coming days, the museum will post a list of all the items found in the whale’s system, the museum said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2689346287758609&id=216407245052538\">a post\u003c/a> on its Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blatchley and his team work with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and other organizations to assist in rescue and recovery of marine animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within the last 10 years, we have recovered 61 whales and dolphins just within the Davao Gulf,” he said. “Of them, 57 have died due to man — whether they ingested plastic or fishing nets or other waste, or gotten caught in pollution — and four were pregnant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019 alone, Blatchley said, he and his team have found three whales or dolphins with plastic waste in their systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Philippines has been deemed one of the “\u003ca href=\"https://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/coraltriangle/?329831/The-scourge-of-single-use-plastic-in-the-Philippines\">world’s leading plastic polluters\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://web.unep.org/unepmap/un-declares-war-ocean-plastic\">U.N. 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According to a \u003ca href=\"https://oceanconservancy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/full-report-stemming-the.pdf\">2017 study\u003c/a> from the environmental group Ocean Conservancy, more than half of that waste comes from just five countries in East and Southeast Asia — China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that more than half a million metric tons of plastic waste from the Philippines makes it into the ocean each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blatchley said he hoped that the latest incident with the Cuvier’s beaked whale would launch the issue of plastic pollution in the Philippines, and across the globe, to the forefront.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“If we keep going this way, it will be more uncommon to see an animal die of natural causes than it is to see an animal die of plastic.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we keep going this way, it will be more uncommon to see an animal die of natural causes than it is to see an animal die of plastic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Stomach+Of+Dead+Whale+Contained+%27Nothing+But+Nonstop+Plastic%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1939310/nothing-but-nonstop-plastic-found-in-stomach-of-dead-whale","authors":["byline_science_1939310"],"categories":["science_2874","science_40","science_2873"],"tags":["science_3838","science_1189"],"featImg":"science_1939311","label":"source_science_1939310"},"science_1931582":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1931582","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1931582","score":null,"sort":[1537477858000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-becomes-first-state-to-curtail-plastic-straws-in-restaurants","title":"Next Year in California, You'll Have to Ask for That Straw","publishDate":1537477858,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Next Year in California, You’ll Have to Ask for That Straw | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>People who want straws with their drinks at California restaurants will have to ask for them under a new state law.[contextly_sidebar id=”iEek4fDVi4VVJwswE90PtTMGZCTkMapL”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law signed Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown makes California the first state to bar full-service restaurants from automatically giving out single-use plastic straws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes effect next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law doesn’t ban plastic straws outright like some cities have.\u003cbr>\nRestaurants that don’t comply will get two warnings before being fined up to $300 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will apply only to full-service restaurants, not fast food establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers who support the law call it a small step toward reducing ocean pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists called it a great step in the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"m-3793131304738352932gmail-p3\">\u003cspan class=\"m-3793131304738352932gmail-s1\">“Nothing we use for five minutes should end up polluting our environment for thousands of years,” said Dan Jacobson, Director Environment California. “The time to take action on this persistent problem is NOW.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics argue California’s new law is government overreach that won’t significantly improve the environment. 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Jerry Brown makes California the first state to bar full-service restaurants from automatically giving out single-use plastic straws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes effect next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law doesn’t ban plastic straws outright like some cities have.\u003cbr>\nRestaurants that don’t comply will get two warnings before being fined up to $300 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will apply only to full-service restaurants, not fast food establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers who support the law call it a small step toward reducing ocean pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists called it a great step in the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"m-3793131304738352932gmail-p3\">\u003cspan class=\"m-3793131304738352932gmail-s1\">“Nothing we use for five minutes should end up polluting our environment for thousands of years,” said Dan Jacobson, Director Environment California. “The time to take action on this persistent problem is NOW.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics argue California’s new law is government overreach that won’t significantly improve the environment. Some say restricting straws hurts disabled people who rely on them.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Republican Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez of Lake Elsinore said she doesn’t believe the move will reduce pollution but will punish restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"src-routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-___Post__post_Body___Bkfwv\">\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry doesn’t oppose the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Coastal Commission \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-plastic-straw-limits-california-20180823-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has recorded roughly\u003c/a> 835,000 straws and stirrers picked up between 1988 and 2014 during beach cleanups.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"src-routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-___Post__post_Body___Bkfwv\">\n\u003cp>Plastic can take up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/water/wmb/coastal/trash/documents/marine_debris.pdf\">500 years\u003c/a> to decompose and leaks toxins into the soil and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Amel Ahmed contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1931582/california-becomes-first-state-to-curtail-plastic-straws-in-restaurants","authors":["byline_science_1931582"],"categories":["science_35","science_37","science_40","science_2873"],"tags":["science_192","science_3370","science_101","science_1189"],"featImg":"science_1931610","label":"source_science_1931582"},"science_1931116":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1931116","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1931116","score":null,"sort":[1536779260000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"your-2018-guide-to-californias-coastal-cleanup-day","title":"Your Guide to California's 2018 Coastal Cleanup Day","publishDate":1536779260,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Your Guide to California’s 2018 Coastal Cleanup Day | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>On Saturday, Sept. 15, thousands of Californians will descend on the state’s beaches, parks, and riverbanks to collect trash.[contextly_sidebar id=”NIDBdeyv5X0Vw5XAunH5LnLCPv0WVQfQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts are part of the annual \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/cleanup/#/map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coastal Cleanup Day, \u003c/a>a global campaign to remove debris from the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last year’s Cleanup, which falls on the third Saturday of September, California \u003ca href=\"https://healthebay.org/event/coastal-cleanup-day-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">volunteers picked up\u003c/a> 800,000 pounds of trash and recyclables in only three hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collected trash is then tallied to raise awareness about major pollution challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food wrappers, lids, paper and plastic bags are among the most common items collected, in addition to the number one item picked up: cigarette butts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers can head out to any one of nearly 1,000 cleanup sites throughout the state, including inland areas where trash can be removed before it reaches the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want to participate? Find a cleanup spot near you using the map below.[contextly_sidebar id=”qezbmTZY0GkJj4WdTwH8jy9OECqUIFt5″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers who are 18 years old or younger must bring with them a parent-signed waiver, found\u003ca href=\"http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/waiver.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For groups of 20 or more volunteers, call (415) 561-3077 or email \u003ca href=\"mailto:volunteer@parksconservancy.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">volunteer@parksconservancy.org \u003c/a>to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1qwCVkxWP-ZZIMgfSXc5SJ-ZZ1UY&hl=en&w=640&h=480]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep track of your efforts and help researchers collect environmental data by \u003ca href=\"https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/international-coastal-cleanup/cleanswell/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downloading the Clean Swell app\u003c/a>. The data will be sent to the Ocean Conservancy’s ocean trash database, which helps identify trends and delivers a snapshot of global ocean trash for researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app keeps a record of your cleanup history, including total distance cleaned, allowing users to see their environmental impact and share it on social media.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tens of thousands of volunteers in California pitch in annually for the annual cleanup. We've included a map to make it easy for you and loved ones to participate. 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Find a cleanup spot near you using the map below.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers who are 18 years old or younger must bring with them a parent-signed waiver, found\u003ca href=\"http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/waiver.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For groups of 20 or more volunteers, call (415) 561-3077 or email \u003ca href=\"mailto:volunteer@parksconservancy.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">volunteer@parksconservancy.org \u003c/a>to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n src='https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1qwCVkxWP-ZZIMgfSXc5SJ-ZZ1UY&hl=en&w=640&h=480'\n title='https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1qwCVkxWP-ZZIMgfSXc5SJ-ZZ1UY&hl=en&w=640&h=480'\n width='640'\n height='480'\n scrolling='no'\n frameborder='no'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep track of your efforts and help researchers collect environmental data by \u003ca href=\"https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/international-coastal-cleanup/cleanswell/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downloading the Clean Swell app\u003c/a>. 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He said he’s most looking forward to a ship loaded with plastic coming back to port.[contextly_sidebar id=”HEddLyWKjztJ783eMOy5VlBtKi6DphNB”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have to prove the technology… which will then allow us to scale up a fleet of systems,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ocean Cleanup, which has raised $35 million in donations to fund the project, including from Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, will deploy 60 free-floating barriers in the Pacific Ocean by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our goals is to remove 50 percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years,” Slat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The free-floating barriers are made to withstand harsh weather conditions and constant wear and tear. They will stay in the water for two decades and in that time collect 90 percent of the trash in the patch, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Leonard, chief scientist of the Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, said he’s skeptical Slat can achieve that goal because even if plastic trash can be taken out of the ocean, a lot more is pouring in each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We at the Ocean Conservancy are highly skeptical but we hope it works,” he said. “The ocean needs all the help it can get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard said 9 million tons of plastic waste enter the ocean annually and that a solution must include a multi-pronged approach, including stopping plastic from reaching the ocean and more education so people reduce consumption of single use plastic containers and bottles.[contextly_sidebar id=”4iprbOctg89xEZy7VIqjdqBwvJKYxjhg”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t stop plastics from flowing into the ocean, it will be a Sisyphean task,” Leonard said, citing the Greek myth of a task never completed. He added that on September 15 about 1 million volunteers around the world will collect trash from beaches and waterways as part of the Ocean Conservancy’s annual International Coastal Cleanup. Volunteers last year collected about 10,000 tons of plastics worldwide over two hours, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard also raised concerns that marine and wildlife could be entangled by the net that will hang below the surface. He said he hopes Slat’s group is transparent with its data and shares information with the public about what happens with the first deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has set a very large and lofty goal and we certainly hope it works but we really are not going to know until it is deployed,” Leonard said. “We have to wait and see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system will act as a “big boat that stands still in the water” and will have a screen and not a net so that there is nothing for marine life to get entangled with. As an extra precautionary measure, a boat carrying experienced marine biologists will be deployed to make sure the device is not harming wildlife, Slat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m the first to acknowledge this has never done before and that it is important to collect plastic on land and close the taps on plastic entering into the ocean, but I also think humanity can do more than one thing at a time to tackle this problem,” Slat said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A massive buoyant trash-collecting device is en route from San Francisco to the Pacific Ocean. 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They will stay in the water for two decades and in that time collect 90 percent of the trash in the patch, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Leonard, chief scientist of the Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, said he’s skeptical Slat can achieve that goal because even if plastic trash can be taken out of the ocean, a lot more is pouring in each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We at the Ocean Conservancy are highly skeptical but we hope it works,” he said. “The ocean needs all the help it can get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard said 9 million tons of plastic waste enter the ocean annually and that a solution must include a multi-pronged approach, including stopping plastic from reaching the ocean and more education so people reduce consumption of single use plastic containers and bottles.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t stop plastics from flowing into the ocean, it will be a Sisyphean task,” Leonard said, citing the Greek myth of a task never completed. 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