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products and publicly report progress, as well as chemicals are at the very source of plastic pollution,
develop sustainable infrastructure and establish degrading our natural world and posing significant
governance and accountability for sustainability financial risks. Petrochemical companies should not
commitments at board level, linking management be exempt from these policies and must understand
compensation to circularity goals. business as usual is not an option”.

Alex Burr, senior ESG policy and nature lead at Legal Source – IPE
& General Investment Management, said: “Petro-

Recycling firms unite to oppose reus-

able plastic bag ban

eeking to quash a regulatory change that In a statement, Roxanne Spiekerman, vice president
would remove over 100 million pounds of of public affairs for PreZero US, said that by banning
SNorth American post-consumer resin demand the reusable plastic film bags that contain PCR, the
per year, EFS-Plastics, Merlin Plastics and PreZero legislation would “force Californians to choose be-
US have joined together to advocate for retaining tween two options, both of which carry with them
recycled-content reusable plastic bags in California’s negative environmental challenges.”
bag regulations.
“The canvas and sewn poly-woven or non-woven
The Responsible Recycling Alliance is calling for Cali- polypropylene bags are not recyclable by any known
fornia lawmakers to abandon Senate Bill 1053 and method in the U.S., contain zero post-consumer
its companion legislation, Assembly Bill 2236, which content, and are typically imported from overseas,”
would expand the state’s bag ban to prohibit reus- Spiekerman said. “Similarly, paper bags consume
able bags made from 40% post-consumer resin. more water and energy during production and re-
cycling than reusable plastic film grocery bags, re-

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