Students are smort!-----UCLA BANS all single-use plastics

UCLA BANS all single-use plastics

• UCLA has announced a policy development that would completely ban single-use plastics, and replace them with compostables and other alternatives.
• Similar to a UC-wide policy decision, UCLA shortened its deadlines and more aggressive goals.

"...The new policy will ultimately remove all single-use plastics ranging from cups and cup lids, plastic bags, utensils, bowls, and other “food accessory” items.
The goal for UCLA is to have every dine-in or take-out restaurant, dining halls, events, and even departmental meetings move away from plastics completely and begin using locally compostable or reusable alternatives.
...“As a biology major, I’ve studied how critical a healthy ocean is in fighting climate change, in carbon capture, biodiversity and as an ecosystem,” said UCLA junior, Sithara Menon, chair of the CALPIRG Students UCLA chapter.
“It’s important, as students, that we take what we learn and use it, and I can do that starting here on this campus, helping reduce our plastic addiction.”...
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