{"id":13259,"date":"2016-11-23T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T10:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gojute.co.uk\/?p=13259"},"modified":"2022-09-30T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T12:25:52","slug":"now-thats-call-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gojuteinternational.com\/en\/resources\/now-thats-call-headline","title":{"rendered":"Now that’s what we call a headline!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BagNow that’s what we call a headline Metro<\/a> ! What other incentives can address the other half still on our beaches & in the ocean? #SAS<\/a>#SayNoToPlastic<\/a><\/p>\n

PLUS this week, The nation\u2019s first statewide ban on those flimsy plastic grocery bags will take effect in California, thanks to the defeat of an industry-backed ballot measure to overturn it.<\/p>\n

\"Bag<\/p>\n

As of Wednesday morning, 52 percent of voters had approved Proposition 67, upholding the state\u2019s 2014 law ending the use of thin plastic shopping bags in supermarkets and larger grocery stores.<\/p>\n

Conservation advocates have been increasingly seeking such bans at local and state levels across the country because the bags, which are made from petroleum and may take centuries to fully biodegrade, have become a major source of plastic litter and a hazard to wildlife. A study published in January by the group Ocean Conservancy identified plastic bags as one of the most hazardous types of plastic litter for marine mammals, which get tangled up in the bags or mistake them for prey and eat them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a coalition of over 700 groups, ranging from the California Grocers Association to the Sierra Club to the L.A. Chamber of Commerce,\u201d in support of the law, said Steve Maviglio, a spokesperson for the Yes on 67 campaign. \u201cOne hundred fifty-one communities have local bans, so it became a better business practice to support the ban.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maviglio called Prop. 67 \u201ca very deceptive manipulation of our electoral system by out-of-state plastics companies [to] prop up their business in the state for another year and a half.\u201d He estimated that delaying enforcement of the law had allowed bag manufacturers to supply around 20 billion thin-film bags to supermarkets and grocers, with earnings of around $160 million.<\/p>\n

Jon Berrier, a spokesperson for the American Progressive Bag Alliance trade group, countered that a focus on thin-film plastic bags \u201cignores bigger threats\u201d to the environment. He claimed that the switch to thicker, multiple-use plastic bags would increase the amount of plastic in California\u2019s environment by up to 30 percent.<\/p>\n

Another ballot measure backed by the alliance, which would have redirected the 10-cent bag fee from retailers and environmental education programs to a wildlife conservation fund, failed. Berrier said the measure was intended to highlight that the fee amounted to a giveaway to grocery operators in return for backing the bag ban. But Maviglio\u2014who said he was on the board of directors of a medium-size independent grocery store in Sacramento\u2014said that based on his experience, grocers were breaking even or losing money on the bag fee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real motivation [was] twofold: First, to confuse the voters, because they\u2019re asking voters to vote yes on this and no on 67,\u201d he said. \u201cThe other fact is that they were essentially trying to screw the grocers who were supportive of [the statewide ban] after decades of opposing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among other environment-related ballot measures around the country:
\nVoters defeated a constitutional amendment in Florida, backed by power utilities, that would have undercut expansion of rooftop solar power in the state.<\/p>\n

Washington state voters rejected a carbon tax of $15 per metric ton on greenhouse gas emissions, which was aimed at lowering the state\u2019s spew of the heat-trapping pollution.<\/p>\n

In oil-rich Monterey County, California, voters banned fracking and other extraction methods, as well as new oil wells in the county.<\/p>\n

Credit: Emily J. Gertz is an associate editor for environment and wildlife at TakePart.<\/a><\/p>\n

For more info read this wonderful article: \u00a0Partnership For A Plastic Free Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n

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