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Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, a person who violates any provision of the code to be guilty of a misdemeanor with each offense punishable by a fine of not less than $25 or more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 6 months, or by both.
This bill would prohibit a food facility, as specified, where food may be consumed on the premises from providing single-use plastic straws to consumers unless requested by the consumer. By creating a new crime and imposing additional enforcement duties on local health agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1884
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California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @10:16AM (6 children)
This is not a non-problem. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/19/more-plastic-than-fish-in-the-sea-by-2050-warns-ellen-macarthur [theguardian.com]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday January 28 2018, @11:27AM (5 children)
' So in other words, more than 90% of plastic waste in the ocean doesn't come from California or its plastic straws.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:36PM (1 child)
What do you think happens to Cali's plastic straws? They evaporate into the aether?
Most of the developed world packs up and ships out their plastic waste to asia and africa for "recycling". Which generally means getting dumped wherever there's space, because the government departments have been paid off, and so nobody's going to check whether the stuff is actually recycled at all.
Then it rains on the dumping site, and bits and bobs of plastic get washed along the same routes as all the water goes - into the rivers and down to the sea.
(Score: 3, Touché) by khallow on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:41PM
I think they end up in a landfill in California.
Ah, the blame the developed world game again. It's still not the developed world dumping this plastic, but the recipients in Asia and Africa.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 29 2018, @11:24AM (2 children)
Where do you think the Cali plastic comes from? Asia.
Plastic is manufactured from granules. The production standards in Asia are horrible and the pollution enormous. Then you have the shipping part where containers regularly fall off ships in storms and even entire ships sink spewing all their contents in the oceans.
You have to take into account the entire life cycle of a product to see its impact.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 29 2018, @03:26PM (1 child)
Didn't say otherwise.
And yet, this doesn't take into account who's putting plastic in the oceans or when.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @10:17PM
California is. All the time.