The Interior Department says it will phase out sales of plastic water bottles and other single-use products at national parks and on other public lands over the next decade.
FILE - A trash can overflows as people sit outside of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial by the Tidal Basin, Dec. 27, 2018, in Washington, during a partial government shutdown. The Interior Department said Wednesday, June 8, 2022, it will phase out single-use plastic products on national parks and other public lands over the next decade, targeting a leading source of U.S. plastic waste such as food and beverage containers, straws and bags.
Environmental groups hailed the Biden administration's announcement, which advocates and some Democratic lawmakers have been urging for years. Merkley, who chairs a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Interior Department, is co-sponsor of a bill that would ban the sale of single-use plastic water bottles in national parks.
Matt Seaholm, president and CEO of the Plastics Industry Association, called Interior's announcement “disappointing'' and counterproductive.“In most applications, plastic products are the least environmentally harmful option, as long as they are disposed of properly,'' said Seaholm, whose group represents the entire plastics industry supply chain. He urged improved recycling infrastructure in parks as"a better approach to sustainability.
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