Date/Time
Date(s) – 12/12/2016
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location
Culver City City Hall
Categories
On Monday, December 12, The Culver City Council will consider a comprehensive Ballona Creek Renaissance (BCR) proposal to help Culver City make the shift away from harmful single-use polystyrene food service-ware to better alternatives.
First, BCR invites all to take the city’s short online survey by midnight, Wednesday, 12/7 at http://ow.ly/EGac306aFDg.
Second, BCR encourages everyone to share your views at the city council meeting on Monday night or to the council via email. Working together and building on the successful single-use plastic bag ban, our communities can continue to tackle this major issue of DISPOSABLE PLASTIC one step at a time–through personal choices, advocacy, volunteering and support.
For the 7pm council meeting agenda, go online to https://
Background: In a change since April, BCR now offers the City of Manhattan Beach’s 2013-4 ordinance as a successful model. Geared toward eliminating single-use polystyrene food service-ware from the waste-stream, this model clearly describes the who, what, why, when, and how—including ways that all affected businesses can request a hardship exemption and adapt to feasible alternatives during a transition period.
To date, ninety-nine California municipalities have passed similar ordinances, and to BCR’s knowledge, no business has opted out or closed as a result.
For BCR and its broad-based coalition of community, school, and environmental stakeholders, this can be win-win-win for the environment, community, and affected businesses.
To BCR, getting unnecessary single-use polystyrene out of the waste stream also is more cost effective for cities and taxpayers than either the status quo or an improved version of the status quo.
For related details and short videos on the BCR website, visit http://ballonacreek.org/
