Fwd: Update: The ban on plastic produce bags will stay!
Brittany Friedman
From: CALPIRG <act...@pirg.org>
Date: Wed, May 27, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Subject: Update: The ban on plastic produce bags will stay!
To: MS. Brittany Friedman <blf1...@gmail.com>
 Brittany, I'm excited to report back that the attempt to overturn California's ban on plastic produce bags died last month. That means we thankfully won't see the return of this unnecessary plastic in the fruit and vegetable aisle. Thank you to everyone who took action and made it clear to the State Legislature that Californians want less, not more, plastic. Buying groceries shouldn't have to mean coming home with a mountain of single-use plastic waste. That's why CALPIRG helped win laws to prohibit plastic carryout bags and plastic produce bags in grocery stores in our state. However, this year the plastic industry pushed a bill to try to overturn the ban on plastic produce bags. If that bill passed, it would have brought back millions of unrecyclable plastic bags, a source of pollution in our waterways and litter in our communities. Unsurprisingly, Californians rejected that idea, and thanks to action from people like you, the legislature did the right thing. The bill was so unpopular that it wasn't even brought up for a vote. From production to disposal, single-use plastics are harmful to the environment and public health. Creating plastic requires drilling for oil, releasing carbon emissions into the air.1 Once produced, only about 5% of plastic is actually recycled.2 The majority of plastic items end up piling up in our landfills, burned in incinerators where they pollute our air, or in our environment, where they can harm wildlife and break into microplastics that threaten our drinking water.3 That's why we need to get rid of unnecessarily single-use plastic items like plastic grocery bags. We're glad that California has taken action, and that over and over again, when the plastic industry tries to weaken our anti-plastic pollution laws, we've been able to successfully defend them. Thanks again for being in this fight with us. We can have cleaner streets and a healthier environment, but only if we keep reducing single-use plastic from our world. Thank you, Jenn Engstrom Your donation will power our dedicated staff of organizers, policy experts and attorneys who drive all of our campaigns in the public interest, from banning toxic pesticides and moving us beyond plastic, to saving our antibiotics and being your consumer watchdog, to protecting our environment and our democracy. None of our work would be possible without the support of people just like you. |
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