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California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws

posted by martyb on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the That's-the-last-straw! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:36PM (#629419)

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by khallow on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:41PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:41PM (#629423) Journal

    What do you think happens to Cali's plastic straws? They evaporate into the aether?

    I think they end up in a landfill in California.

    Most of the developed world packs up and ships out their plastic waste to asia and africa for "recycling".

    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.