Hooray Oregon!

This comes via Monterey Bay Aquarium, which writes:

Congrats to our west coast neighbor, Oregon, for launching their program to manage packaging, paper, and plastic food ware! This big step will modernize Oregon's recycling system by increasing recycling rates, reducing waste, and improving access to recycling services while shifting costs to producers who create the waste in the first place. In California, SB 54 is poised to go a step further by reducing the amount of single-use plastic produced. Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 54 into law to reduce costs for consumers by making producers pay for the waste they produce.

This Plastic Free July, we are encouraging Governor Gavin Newsom to break up with plastic and remember that robust implementation of SB 54 is the consumer and environment friendly thing to do.

“We applaud Oregon for stepping up to address single-use plastic. With SB 54, California has the chance to go even further by not just managing plastic waste, but preventing it.” – Amy Wolfrum, director of California Policy and Government Affairs, Monterey Bay Aquarium.

We can make a world without plastic that’s healthier for people and our ocean planet.