SCH Number 2023050007

Project Info

Title

Comprehensive Plastics Reduction Program

Description

The City seeks to implement a citywide Comprehensive Plastics Reduction Program, which would involve adopting measures to reduce or eliminate the production and use of single-use plastic products (“upstream” measures) and encourage reuse of other items to the extent feasible, thereby reducing or eliminating the input of single-use plastics into the City’s waste stream and the environment and reducing the aesthetic, environmental, and human health impacts of single-use plastics. The proposed upstream measures may include bans on specific single-use products; product stewardship programs (e.g., certain packaging and/or foodware items); extended producer responsibility programs (e.g., take-back programs for certain textiles); policies to require and/or support the manufacturing of durable, reusable, repairable, and recyclable products (e.g., requirements for recycled content in certain products); and evaluating Program efficacy and conducting additional studies (e.g., additional take-back programs and/or pilot programs).

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