Plastic pollution

Citizens Campaign for the Environment will host a free virtual Lunch & Learn webinar on plastic pollution Thursday, March 26, at noon.

Worthwhile local efforts to reduce plastic pollution help, but global action is needed and the $712 billion plastic production industry is working hard to block it.

Residents and environmental advocates spoke out Tuesday in favor of a trio of bills aimed at banning polystyrene and reducing single-use plastics in Suffolk County.

A pair of bills scheduled for public hearings March 5 in RIverhead would ban the use of single-use plastic straws, cups, containers, beverage stirrers and other items used by food service establishments.

The Southampton Town Board yesterday unanimously adopted a code amendment, which takes effect on May 8, to ban the distribution of plastic straws, stirrers and foam packaging by food service establishments and beverage providers in the town.

Learn what you can do to reduce plastic pollution in the local community at the first meeting of the Plastic Reduction and Elimination Project of the North Fork.