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Local Product Bans, Fees, and Recycling Requirements

MCLI Recommendation: “Congress could pass legislation that establishes minimum state recycling rates and food scrap diversion rates.”

LPDD Recommendation: “States could adopt laws with more ambitious goals (e.g., zero waste), intermediate targets, and timetables for achieving these more ambitious goals, and means of achieving them.”

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Example Local Governments

Brisbane CA Bag Ban

Brisbane’s Ordinance 580 requires retailers to stop giving out single-use plastic bags and instead only offer recycled-content paper or reusable bags for a minimum charge of 10 cents per bag.
Example States and State Governments

California Recycling Market Development Act

The California Recycling Market Development Act (2019) reauthorizes a Recycling Sales Tax Exemption; reauthorizes the Recycling Market Development Zone Program; and establishes a “Statewide Commission...
Resource States and State Governments

California’s proposed SB 54 (2019)

SB 54, The California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act, would require all single-use plastic packaging and products be reduced or recycled by 75 percent by 2030; require all single...
Example Local Governments

Honolulu Plastic Ban

Honolulu’s Bill 40, Relating to Plastic (2019), has been called one of the strongest single-use plastic ban in the nation. It was approved in December 2019. This law bans nearly all takeout plastic ov...
Example Local Governments

Denver’s Waste No More Ballot Measure

Via ballot measure in the 2022 midterms, Denver voters endorsed new rules mandating that large apartment buildings, restaurants and a broad range of other commercial businesses be required to recycle ...
Example States and State Governments

New Jersey Ban on Single-Use Plastic and Paper Bags

In Nov. 2020, New Jersey adopted S864, which prohibits the use of single-use plastic and paper bags in all stores and food service businesses statewide. Under the law, starting May 2022, both plastic ...
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Groundswell plastic foam ban list

Groundswell, a nonprofit community solar developer, maintains a list of communities across the US that have banned polystyrene foam products.
Resource Local Governments

Model Ordinance Reducing the Use of Plastic Bags, Polystyrene, and Straws

Model local ordinance from Beyond Plastics banning the “plastics trifecta” – plastic bags, plastic straws and polystyrene – three of the biggest sources of single-use plastic pollution.
Example States and State Governments

California’s Bring-Your-Own Reusable Food and Beverage Containers Law

California’s AB 619 (2019) ends the requirement that temporary food facilities at community events provide single-use foodware and makes clear for restaurants that they may serve food and beverages in...
Example Local Governments

San Diego Polystyrene and Plastic bans

San Diego’s Ordinance 21030 (2019) regulates products made from polystyrene and the distribution of certain single-use straws and utensils. Under the Ordinance, vendors may not distribute plastic stra...
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Surfrider database on Plastic Bag Bans and Fee, Polystyrene Ordinances

The Surfrider Foundation maintains a list of plastic bag bans and fees as well as polystyrene ordinances from across the US and internationally.
Example Local Governments

Portland ME bag fee

In 2014, Portland passed a 5 cent fee on paper and plastic bags.
Example Local Governments

Alameda County Bag Ban

The Alameda County Waste Management Authority adopted its ordinance banning plastic bags and placing a 10 cent price requirement on paper and reusable bags in January of 2012. It has been expanded in ...
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Californians Against Waste

Californians Against Waste is a non-profit environmental research and advocacy organization that identifies, develops, promotes and monitors policy solutions to pollution and conservation problems. Th...
Example States and State Governments

California Bag Ban

In 2016, California voters approved Proposition 67, the statewide Single-Use Carryout Bag Ban. As a result, SB 270 is in effect and most grocery stores, retail stores with a pharmacy, convenience stor...
Example States and State Governments

California’s Single-Use Plastics Ban

In June 2022, California adopted a law requiring all plastic packaging to be recyclable or compostable by 2032. Among its other tenets, the law requires by 2032 plastic producers must reduce the amoun...