By CILU
January 28, 2021 at 3:22 AM
Nandini Checko, Project Director at the Association of NJ Environmental Commissions (ANJEC).
Nandini Checko, Project Director at the Association of NJ Environmental Commissions (ANJEC).
Credits: CILU
January 28, 2021 at 3:22 AM
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
HOLMDEL, NJ Citizens for Informed Land Use (CILU), in conjunction with Holmdel’s Green Team, will host an informative Zoom talk about S864: New Jersey’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act on Monday, February 15, 2021 at 7:30 pm.
This timely topic will be presented by Nandini Checko, Project Director at the Association of NJ Environmental Commissions (ANJEC). Ms. Checko, who leads the plastic pollution reduction program at ANJEC, will explain components of the nation s strictest single-use plastics law which was signed by Governor Murphy in November. Starting
New Jersey environmental wins and losses of 2020
New Jersey environmental wins and losses of 2020
By Michele S. Byers
The year 2020 will go down in history as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many lives lost, lockdowns, school and business closings, economic uncertainty and political divisions. In the midst of it all we found a silver lining as New Jerseyans embraced and enjoyed parks and green spaces.
The past year this state we’re in saw encouraging progress on climate action, clean energy, environmental justice, reductions in plastic pollution, and more preserved open space and farmland.
Parks and open space – It is no secret New Jerseyans love nature and open space as demonstrated by the overwhelming success of every statewide land preservation ballot question in the past 60 years.
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President-elect Joe Biden will have a long to-do list the moment he takes over the White House this month. Plastic trash should be one of his priorities. Here’s why. Single-use plastic is a climate change issue as well as an observable, measurable menace to the environment that has only been exacerbated by the pandemic and the need for plastic protective gear. Most plastic is made from fossil fuels, and millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions are released from the extraction of these resources, and the manufacture and incineration of plastic.
The end life of plastic is just as concerning. Very little of the plastic produced has been recycled, less than 10%. Even more of it has been burned. But the vast majority has been left to molder in landfills and, increasingly, pollute the environment. We hear mostly about ocean plastic and the harm done to marine life that mistakes plastic bags and bits for food. But microplastic is even more worrisome. Plastic doesn’t
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Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group explains California’s potential adoption of a comprehensive regulatory regime for single-use plastics in packaging and food service ware.
A recent proposal, California Senate Bill 54, failed by a slim margin this fall
State legislators seek the elimination of non-compostable and non-recyclable single-use plastics by 2032
A revised proposal is expected in 2021
In 2020, for the second year in a row, the California Legislature narrowly rejected a bill phasing out the majority of single-use plastics that can’t be recycled or composted. Had it passed, Senate Bill 54 the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act would have established a sweeping regulatory regime affecting producers, retailers, and wholesalers of single-use plastic packaging, including primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging, and “priority single-use products,” defined as si