bill sought to require product makers to reduce plastic trash polluting the ocean
File In this Aug. 11,ralph lauren outlet, 2009 file photo provided by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows Matt Durham, center, pulling in a large patch of sea garbage with the help of Miriam Goldstein, right, in the Pacific Ocean. Plastics discarded by people often end up in the ocean, creating coastal pollution that harms marine life and gathers out at sea in what become known as the great Pacific garbage patch. Now, California state lawmakers have introduced a law that if passed would require makers of plastic bottles, bags and packaging to replace plastics with more environmentally friendly alternatives. (AP Photo/ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Mario Aguilera, File)
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SAN FRANCISCO A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday,gucci outlet.
Assembly Bill 521 was before the chamber Appropriations Committee, and the panel failed to act on it, effectively killing the legislation for the session. It had previously passed the Assembly Natural Resource Committee.
State Assemblyman Mark Stone, a D Monterey Bay, one of the proposal sponsors, was disappointed by the outcome.
pollution will continue to harm our oceans and coastline, so Assemblymember Stone is committed to working on this problem, said Arianna Smith, Stone legislative and communications director.
Once in the ocean, plastic takes ages to decompose. The manmade junk either collects into floating trash islands called patches, or it breaks into smaller pieces that harm and kill sea creatures throughout the food chain.
It a complex problem with no easy fix, but some European countries have already implemented producer responsibility laws with some success.
AB521 would have required manufacturers to figure out how to reduce 95 per cent of plastic pollution along the state coastline by 2024. It carried financial penalties for companies that did not comply: up to $10,000 per day for the worst violations.
Assemblyman Eric Linder, R Corona, said during Friday Appropriations Committee meeting that he opposed the measure in part because it singled out one industry as the source of ocean pollution.
agree that cleaning up our oceans should be something that very, very important to us, but this bill places the burden of compliance directly on the producers instead of the violators, the people who are littering, Linder said.
The regulation was just the latest California legislative attempt to address some of the world toughest environmental problems, often at the expense of private business, critics say.
The state large economy and population has already influenced automakers to produce cleaner burning cars, forced warning labels for toxic chemicals on a range of consumer products and put a price on heat trapping carbon emissions from industrial sources.
nearly 40 million people in the state, what happens here matters whether it is cap and trade and renewable energy portfolio standards,true religion outlet online, solid waste reduction, water conservation, said Mark Gold, associate director of the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
happens in California matters both nationally and globally,tn pas cher, he added.
Gold said legislation won solve the plastic pollution problem, but could have a wide ranging effect. to try to reduce the amount of plastic junk in the ocean that makes up trash formations such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, known as the world largest landfill.
The plastic industry, California Chamber of Commerce and other business interests opposed the bill, saying they already fund recycling and other programs to reduce marine plastic pollution. Plus, they say, the bill asks manufacturers to develop new products or other ways to reduce trash,coach outlet, but it doesn say how.
Extended producer responsibility laws have already taken root in more than two dozen European countries,oakley pas cher.
In France,rayban, nearly 90 per cent of consumer products are part of the Dot program,nike air max 90, requiring manufacturers to pay into a program that recovers and recycles packaging materials. It has successfully influenced manufacturers there to cut down on packaging or use alternative materials.
Stone office said the assemblyman is unsure if he will reintroduce the bill next year. He is his options for how to continue to work to address this problem in the future, Smith said.

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