Opinion: California can lead America out of ocean plastics crisis
When I reminisce about the time I spent at the beach as a kid, I remember peering into tide pools and splashing in the cool water of the Pacific. Something I don’t remember — but that now seems inescapable — is plastic pollution, everywhere. The difference is not my imagination. Global plastic production has nearly tripled in my lifetime. Plastics have reached every corner of the planet, from deep ocean trenches to mountaintops and even our lungs and bloodstreams. … We need a multifaceted approach that includes using less plastic and improving recycling rates.
-Written by Dr. Anja Brandon, the U.S. plastics policy analyst at the Ocean Conservancy and one of the chief architects of the Senate Bill 54.Related article:
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