The Del Mar City Council is scheduled to vote Jan. 6 on a second reading of an ordinance that further bans single-use plastics and noncompostable food service items within the city.<\/p>\n
Council members approved the first reading unanimously on Dec. 15.<\/p>\n
Pending the vote on the second reading, which is listed on the council agenda\u2019s consent calendar, the ordinance will take effect on Feb. 6. Businesses will have a six-month grace period to comply, according to the city.<\/p>\n
The city already has regulations including restrictions on single-use plastic bags for carryout, plastic straws and stirrers, and balloons filled with helium or other lighter-than-air gasses. Under the new ordinance, there will be further restrictions on polystyrene and noncompostable single-use utensils, the sale of expanded polystyrene coolers, ice chests or other containers, and drinks in single-use plastic bottles at city functions or on city property.<\/p>\n
Council members also discussed potential future regulations on single-use plastics to help reduce pollution that ends up on local beaches and in the ocean, where it adversely affects marine life.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bans are part of a larger effort to move Del Mar toward becoming a zero-waste city and comply with state goals to divert trash from landfills,\u201d the city announced in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Del Mar City Council is scheduled to vote Jan. 6 on a second reading of an ordinance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38996,38997,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-75770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-del-mar-times","9":"tag-del-mar-times-news","10":"tag-reading-city","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}