AB 904 (Feuer), which would reduce fast food packaging litter and waste will be heard in Assembly Natural Resources Committee Monday, April 23.
Marine debris is a growing problem for California's $43 billion ocean-dependent economy and a drag on local governments, which have spent hundreds of millions of dollars cleaning it up. Marine debris is a growing environmental hazard that has already killed millions of marine animals. This is a problem that needs to be solved in our cities: takeout food packaging is the second greatest component of litter behind tobacco products and 80% of marine debris is land-sourced, with the majority coming from litter in the form of urban runoff.
AB 904 aims to reduce the amount of litter entering our oceans by requiring a switch in takeout food packaging to recyclable/compostable materials.