Category:Plastic Pollution

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San Francisco Just Passed the Nation's Toughest Ban on Polystyrene Products

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June 2016 / San Francisco - "Foam Product Banned

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to outlaw a host of commonly used foam products, in a move hailed as the nation’s most extensive such ban.

The ban applies to polystyrene food packaging, packing peanuts, to-go containers, coffee cups and pool toys, among other things. For most products, the ban will take effect Jan. 1, 2017. For meat and fish trays, it becomes effective July 1, 2017. The bill’s sponsors argued that such foam products, which are not biodegradable, pollute waterways and can harm animal life. They touted the ban as an example of the city’s leadership on environmental issues.

https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4400880&GUID=01FD9FA2-C693-4B54-AF95-5DAB6679FC83

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/06/san-francisco-ban-styrofoam-polystyrene

http://www.savesfbay.org/sites/default/files/Ban%20status_6-25-12.pdf (2012)

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Read More:

http://www.surfrider.org/pages/polystyrene-ordinances

http://www.surfrider.org/programs/plastic-pollution

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Plastic Pollution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_pollution

http://www.trueactivist.com/longest-floating-structure-in-history-sets-out-to-clean-the-ocean-in-2016

http://www.theoceancleanup.com/blog/show/item/worlds-first-ocean-cleaning-system-to-be-deployed-in-2016.html

http://www.nrdc.org/oceans/plastic-ocean/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150212-ocean-debris-plastic-garbage-patches-science/


Eight Million Tons of Plastic Dumped in Ocean Every Year

It's equal to five grocery bags per every foot of coastline around the globe...


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http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21635982-amount-plastic-sea-huge-and-widely-spread-charting-plastic

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/02/daily-chart-14


Plastic clean-up of oceans, a big idea from Holland -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCR2V1HAq78


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