Tag: Plastic

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the United States, a leading global producer of plastics, will now back a global treaty aimed at curbing the annual production of new plastics, which is expected to decrease U.S. manufacturing output. Initially, the U.S. favored a framework where individual nations would devise their own strategies, akin to the Paris Agreement, rather than imposing […]

The Biden-Harris administration announced plans to phase out the use of single-use plastics from all federal operations by 2035, as part of its strategy to deal with plastic pollution. While this falls short of Vice-President Harris’s pledge to ban all single use plastics, it indicates she is serious about moving in that direction. The phase-out would start […]

In 2014, California state legislators passed a law banning single-use plastic bags to reduce the amount of discarded plastic and to limit emissions resulting from their production. Californians, however, are now tossing more pounds of plastic bags than before the legislation was passed. A report by the consumer advocacy group CALPIRG found the tonnage of discarded bags rose from 4.08 per […]