A proposed bill in the California assembly would make it illegal for restaurants to provide plastic straws unless requested by customers. The bill would include penalties such as monetary fines and jail time, but its author has stressed that such penalties would not be enforced.
The bill, proposed by Democratic Assemblyman Ian Calderon, is one of many recent efforts to reduce the number of single-use plastic straws, many of which end up in the ocean or cause environmental issues due to their small size.
