Pathway 2.

Cross-Cutting Approaches to Reducing Emissions → Materials Consumption and Solid Waste

2.6.6 Local Product Bans, Fees, and Recycling Requirements

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress could pass legislation that establishes minimum state recycling rates and food scrap diversion rates.”

LPDD Recommendation: “States could adopt laws with more ambitious goals (e.g., zero waste), intermediate targets, and timetables for achieving these more ambitious goals, and means of achieving them.”

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New Jersey Ban on Single-Use Plastic and Paper Bags

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Prohibits the use of single-use plastic and paper bags in all stores and food service businesses statewide.

Model Ordinance Reducing the Use of Plastic Bags, Polystyrene, and Straws

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Model local ordinance banning the “plastics trifecta” – plastic bags, plastic straws and polystyrene – three of the biggest sources of single-use plastic pollution.

Honolulu Plastic Ban

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Bans nearly all takeout plastic over the next two years across the island of Oahu.

San Diego Polystyrene and Plastic bans

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Regulates products made from polystyrene and the distribution of certain single-use straws and utensils.

California Recycling Market Development Act

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Reauthorizes a Recycling Sales Tax Exemption; reauthorizes the Recycling Market Development Zone Program; and establishes a “Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling.”

California’s Bring-Your-Own Reusable Food and Beverage Containers Law

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Ends the requirement that temporary food facilities at community events provide single-use foodware and makes clear for restaurants that they may serve food and beverages in consumer-provided reusable containers.

Portland ME bag fee

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

In 2014, Portland passed a 5 cent fee on paper and plastic bags.

Brisbane CA Bag Ban

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Requires retailers to stop giving out single-use plastic bags and instead only offer recycled-content paper or reusable bags for a minimum charge of 10 cents per bag.

Alameda County Bag Ban

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Ordinance banning plastic bags and placing a 10 cent price requirement on paper and reusable bags.

California Bag Ban

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Most grocery stores, retail stores with a pharmacy, convenience stores, food marts, and liquor stores will no longer be able to provide single-use plastic carryout bags to their customers.