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‘This issue isn’t going away’: Senator Ben Allen on his bill to reduce plastic waste
Plastic breaks up into smaller pieces, and millions of tons of it end up in the oceans every year. It’s in the food chain, including the food people eat.
By Steve Chiotakis • • 8m ListenPlastic breaks up into smaller pieces, and millions of tons of it end up in the oceans every year. It’s in the food chain, including the food people eat. Now that China won’t take most of America’s plastic recycling anymore, not much of it is getting recycled, no matter which bin people put it in.
Santa Monica’s Democratic State Senator, Ben Allen, authored a bill to reduce plastic waste. Last year, Greater LA spoke to him right after his bill stalled in Sacramento. It happened again this year.
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- 17:47A project born out of friendship and dialogue at the Echo Park Lake aims to fight climate change
The full episode
2 of 3Rebuilding a dream home in LA, and living at the wildland urban interface- 0:00Fire-torn Horizon House in Malibu rebuilt amid debate about living in the wildland urban interface
- 9:14‘This issue isn’t going away’: Senator Ben Allen on his bill to reduce plastic wasteYou’re reading this
- 17:47A project born out of friendship and dialogue at the Echo Park Lake aims to fight climate change