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University of California to Phase Out Single-Use Plastics

September 1, 2020

Via: Waste360

The University of California (UC) has announced a new policy to “phase out single-use plastic bags in retail and dining locations and then eliminate single-use plastic food service items and plastic bottles.”

Notes David Phillips, associate vice president for UC’s Department of Energy and Sustainability, “With changes in the recycling industry that make it more difficult to reuse plastic products, the clear solution is to phase out single-use plastics so they never enter our waste stream in the first place.”

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