In California: Getting real about recycling plastics, and the weather looks bad for fires

Welcome to the weekend! I’m Winston Gieseke, philanthropy and special sections editor for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, bringing you the latest goings-on here in the Golden State. In California brings you top Golden State stories and commentary from across the USA TODAY Network and beyond. Get it free, straight to your inbox . California passes landmark law on recycling plastics Gov. Gavin Newsom is on an environmental roll. Earlier this week, he issued an executive order that will ban new gas-powered vehicles from being sold in California, beginning in 2035 , and now he has signed a “first-in-the-nation law requiring plastic beverage containers to contain an increasing amount of recycled material,” according to The Mercury News. The goal is to reduce the huge amounts of plastic littering our oceans, roadways and other parts of the state. The measure requires that companies producing beverages sold in plastic bottles must use 15% recycled plastic by 2022, 25% recycled plastic by 2025 and 50% recycled plastic by 2030. “This is the most ambitious, aggressive recycled plastics content law in the world,” said Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste, a Sacramento-based environmental group. The bill, AB 793, follows a […]

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