Debate Over Tethered Bottle Caps Heats Up
In the past few weeks, nearly a dozen media outlets have covered the statewide debate over Assemblymember Mark Stone's AB 319*, a bill that would require all plastic beverage containers sold in California to have caps that are connected to their bottle. As the third most common item found polluting California beaches, AB 319 has the potential to prevent the littering, landfilling, and pollution caused by more than five billion bottle caps discarded in California every year. CAW supports the bill.
- San Jose Mercury News: Don’t believe plastics lobby claims about Latinos January 29, 2018
- KSEE 29/Your Central Valley: Assembly bill aims to ban removable bottle caps January 29, 2018
- Fox & Hounds: A Simple Way to Reduce Plastic Pollution January 29, 2018
- La Opinión: Cómo lidiar con la basura plástica en California (How to deal with plastic garbage in California) January 27, 2018
- San Diego Union Tribune: How California lawmakers can reduce plastic pollution January 26, 2018
- Madera Tribune: Recycle and reuse to keep our space clean January 26, 2018
- Capitol Weekly: Unpacking the Bottle Bill January 22, 2018
- KCRA 3: California bill could make some plastic bottles illegal January 16, 2018
- ABC 7: Environmental groups push for plastic bottle cap modifications in California January 8, 2018
- Capital Public Radio: In California, removable plastic water bottle caps could become a thing of the past January 8, 2018
- ABC 30: Proposal to ban plastic bottle caps in California January 6, 2018
- Sacramento Bee: One way to cut plastic pollution January 3, 2018
AB 319 was reintroduced in February 2018 as AB 2779.