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A recent law passed in the state of New York will help reduce the thousands of pounds of plastic waste that hotels produce. “This law will not only provide guests with plastic-free choices but could also save hotels money by eliminating the cost of these single-use plastic items,” said Oceana’s New York field representative, Brian Langloss.
Governments around the world are weeding out wasteful plastics
now supporting additional legislation in New York and California — along with legislation in Massachusetts and Florida — to reduce single-use plastics.
Over the last six months, Oceana and its allies have made measurable progress toward curbing the exponential growth of unnecessary singleuse plastics around the world.
Meanwhile in South America, significant provisions of Chile’s plastics law — featured in the winter 2021 issue of Oceana Magazine — are now in effect. As of February, restaurants, bars, and other food outlets will be fined if they provide single-use plastic cutlery, straws, stirrers, and chopsticks, as well as plastic foam products. In addition, supermarkets are now required to sell and collect refillable bottles. More regulations, including a requirement that dine-in eateries phase out all disposable tableware, will roll out over the next couple of years.
The state of New York passed an Oceana-backed bill that will prohibit hotels across the state from putting toiletries in tiny plastic bottles, which are discarded by the millions each year. The state of California also passed two significant laws recently: one that curbs restaurants’ usage of single-use plastic, and another that opens the door for single-use bottles to be sanitized and refilled by beverage producers. Oceana is
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