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California Governor Signs Ban on Small Plastic Bottles in Hotels
National Review ^ | October 10, 2019 | MAIREAD MCARDLE

Posted on 10/10/2019 10:19:53 PM PDT by DigitalVideoDude

California governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced that he has signed a law banning hotels from providing guests with the small, disposable plastic bottles containing personal-care products such as shampoo and conditioner that are a common staple of the industry.

The ban on plastic bottles holding less than six ounces will go into effect on January 1, 2023 for hotels with more than 50 rooms, and one year after that for hotels with 50 or fewer rooms. The law allows a local agency to conduct inspections and issue citations if hotels do not comply. A first violation carries a $500 fine and a second carries a $2,000 fine...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: ban; california; localnews; newsom; plastic
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To: DigitalVideoDude

There goes the mini-bar and those $5 bottles of Dasani (you’re only charged if you use them).


61 posted on 10/11/2019 6:09:13 AM PDT by moovova (You can't buy it back if you didn't sell it to me.)
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To: DigitalVideoDude

When I stay in hotels, I typically BUY LARGE plastic bottles of water and bring them to the room.


62 posted on 10/11/2019 6:10:30 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: DigitalVideoDude

The law allows searches with no warraant

California is a totalitarian state .

Califoenia must be purged from the union

(sorry Ca Freepers, It’s not your fault)


63 posted on 10/11/2019 6:11:34 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: SanchoP
"Is this all hotels or just the ones with electricity? LMAO!"

LOL!

64 posted on 10/11/2019 6:33:59 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: DigitalVideoDude

The party of no.


65 posted on 10/11/2019 6:38:58 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: DigitalVideoDude

Kalifornia, thew State that is so dumb they banned plastic straws.


66 posted on 10/11/2019 6:41:21 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
if that happened they would just go back to the old style bottles made of glass.

Good point. That's why I would like to see a significant deposit for them. It's not just in my neighborhood they are littered with them; it's all over town.

67 posted on 10/11/2019 7:03:07 AM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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To: DigitalVideoDude
Marriott is already going with this approach in all its hotel chains worldwide. Oh, they’ve already eliminated plastic straws. 8/29/29 press release:

Marriott International (NASDAQ: MAR) today announced that it’s expanding an initiative to replace tiny, single-use toiletry bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel in guestroom showers with larger, pump-topped bottles. To date, the company has already rolled out larger bottles at about 1,000 properties in North America, and now expects most of its other hotels to make the switch by December 2020. When fully implemented across the globe, Marriott International’s expanded toiletry program is expected to prevent about 500 million tiny bottles annually from going to landfills; that’s about 1.7 million pounds of plastic, a 30 percent annual reduction from current amenity plastic usage.

Ironically I’m currently using shampoo from a small bottle I got from a Marriott hotel in Dubai. I do a lot of travel and haven’t bought shampoo in a couple decades. Probably have 5 years of inventory left. Then... it will be refills.

68 posted on 10/11/2019 7:32:18 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Boomer
Good point.
That's why I would like to see a significant deposit for them. It's not just in my neighborhood they are littered with them; it's all over town.

Money Talks!

Back in the days when beer cans were made out of tin they littered the roadsides by the hundreds.
Tin cans had (and still have) so little value that people didn't bother to pick them up to recycle.

Driving at night the shiny tin can bottoms reflecting light from car headlights looked like hundreds of little lights or reflectors lining the roads.

But when the brewers changed to aluminum cans that people could recycle for money the beer can litter went away almost overnight.
The intrinsic value of the aluminum serves, more or less, as a built in deposit.

Now it is rare to see an empty beer can laying around anywhere.

In places where there is now a deposit on glass or plastic beverage bottles you don't often see them littering the streets.
In places where there is no deposit people just toss them anywhere.

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69 posted on 10/11/2019 9:28:03 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Trump Makes One Believe For A Moment In The American Dream Again" NY Times 1987)
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To: DigitalVideoDude

Just think what a part time legislature would come up with if it wasn’t allowed to sit in session every year fomenting further useless fixes to what doesn’t ail us.. You get the stupid leadership you vote for. or don’t.

This is California where dreams turn into noghtmares overnight and sitting in the dark like a mushroom is normal.


70 posted on 10/11/2019 10:09:24 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: nutmeg
"So bring your own little travel-size plastic bottles you can easily buy in stores. And be sure to toss a bunch of ‘em in the trash when staying in San FranSicko."

Why bother with a trash can, when the streets do just fine? Just toss it. I would be surprised if any littering laws exist or enforced in that cesspool.

71 posted on 10/11/2019 5:11:12 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet
Why bother with a trash can, when the streets do just fine? Just toss it. I would be surprised if any littering laws exist or enforced in that cesspool.

LOL, you're right! Just toss 'em in the filthy streets of San Francisco (once a stunningly beautiful city).

72 posted on 10/11/2019 10:48:29 PM PDT by nutmeg
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