Cities and states across America are pondering whether to ban plastic drinking straws, but the anti-pollution measures are encountering opposition.
Environmental groups argue that stricter plastic regulations are necessary because decades of attempts to recycle plastics have failed miserably.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.California became the first state last year to require that sit-down restaurants give plastic straws only to customers who request them.
Despite opposition from restaurant and industry groups, progress on banning straws and other single-use plastics won’t be stopped, Kate Melges, who leads the anti-plastics campaign for Greenpeace, said via email. Straws are seen by some activists as a “gateway plastic” — highly visible but not essential to many consumers — that is a good target for initial legislation.
Oregon environmental groups don’t like a law that would prevent cities from experimenting with straw bans. “It’s never been implemented anywhere in the state of Oregon,”said, “thus prescribing the statewide solution, definitively with pre-emption, is poor policy before we’ve implemented on the ground in at least one city.”
“In the climate we are in today, cities very much understand they can be at the forefront of policy on toxics or plastics or climate change,” Raphael said. “These pre-emptive actions by states strike at the heart of our ability to have an engaged, democratic system.
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