Sponsors: Senate bill 984 (Sen Merkley), HR 2238 (Lowenthal)
The bill includes support for a National Bottle Bill
National Bottle Bill
Bottle Bill 40 Coalition
Actions you can take to support:
Contact your local PIRG, such as NYPIRG
Press Kit and letter from NYPIRG, including letter to State of New York Governor, Honorable Kathy Hochul:
final_merged_press_packet[1].pdf
National Bottle Bill - 2021 - Bottle Bill Resource Guide - Container Recycling Institute
Information from YStein
American Plastic Makers...
Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act: Understanding Unintended Consequences | America's Plastic Makers®: Making Sustainable Change
"Understanding the Unintended Consequences of the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act”
Proposed legislation would curb critical innovation needed to improve America’s infrastructure and sustainability efforts"
America’s Plastic Makers agree: Reducing plastic waste is essential to creating a more sustainable future. But the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act (BFFPP) won’t help solve America’s plastic waste problem – far from it. Instead, this proposed legislation would stall efforts to address plastic waste in the environment and limit the essential role plastic plays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. If enacted, this bill would:
- block advanced recycling technologies, which allow us to recycle significantly more types and greater amounts of plastic to create new products and provide well-paying jobs;
- cost Americans nearly 1 million jobs by 2026 – many of them permanent losses;
- cut economic output by more than $400 billion by 2026;
- restrict availability of the very [plastic] products needed to combat climate change, such as wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles, as well as the lightweight plastics that make our cars and homes dramatically more energy efficient, which significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions;
- result in shortages of essential materials used throughout the medical supply chain to fight the pandemic, including face masks, shields, medical gowns, syringes, and sanitary packaging; and
- “pause” the production of plastic, resulting in supply chain disruptions that would impede America’s manufacturing resilience and our ability to bounce back economically after crises, such as the current pandemic.
Here is a corresponding document/PDF from the ACC: Economic Implications of a Permit Pause (May 2021)