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Name
Rachel Adell
Title
Master's Student, Environmental Management & Policy Master's Program, Lund University, Sweden
Bio
Rachel has recently completed her Master's in Environmental Management & Policy at Lund University, Sweden. There her focus was on circular economy, resource management systems, and metrics. During her studies she interned for HF&H Consultants working on SB 1383 implementation and an organics recycling rate structure research project. Prior to living in Sweden, she worked for the City of Glendale's recycling program and the City of Los Angeles Regulatory Affairs Division. Rachel graduated with honors from Virginia Tech with a BA in Humanities, Science and Environment.
Banning plastic straw by straw won't work. Or will it?
The trend of banning single-use plastic products item by item is the most common way to reduce plastic pollution in California, the European Union and world-wide. In June of 2019, the EU passed one of the first comprehensive plastic reduction legislations in the world. Four months later, California failed to pass a similar bill. As the State works towards a comprehensive legislation, local agencies who have more regulatory agility will need to ensure that each additional product ban is as effective as intended. This session will evaluate current plastic pollution policies so that attendees can make informed decisions regarding comprehensive and coordinated plastic packaging legislation in an effort to reduce contamination of recycling, support recycling markets and decrease land and marine plastic pollution. Attendees of this presentation will hear the results of the research as it relates to legislative goal attainment and unintended side effects of single-product bans as a means for supporting argumentation for sound policy development.
Banning plastic straw by straw won't work. Or will it?
The trend of banning single-use plastic products item by item is the most common way to reduce plastic pollution in California, the European Union and world-wide. In June of 2019, the EU passed one of the first comprehensive plastic reduction legislations in the world. Four months later, California failed to pass a similar bill. As the State works towards a comprehensive legislation, local agencies who have more regulatory agility will need to ensure that each additional product ban is as effective as intended. This session will evaluate current plastic pollution policies so that attendees can make informed decisions regarding comprehensive and coordinated plastic packaging legislation in an effort to reduce contamination of recycling, support recycling markets and decrease land and marine plastic pollution. Attendees of this presentation will hear the results of the research as it relates to legislative goal attainment and unintended side effects of single-product bans as a means for supporting argumentation for sound policy development.
