Editorial: California has a chance to lead the nation on cutting plastic trash. If we don’t blow it
by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Jun 28, 2022
2 minutes
The last few years have seen one distressing news story after another about the scourge of plastic waste: Single-use plastic packaging dumped in the ocean is killing sea animals who mistake it for food. Elephants in Sri Lanka are dying after ingesting plastic trash piled up in open-air landfills. Discarded bottles, bags and wrapping broken down into microplastic have invaded our food system and even our bloodstream. Microplastic is
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