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Penalties for Single-use Beverage Plastics

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Rule status: Adopted

Agency: DCWP

Effective date: January 8, 2022

Proposed Rule Full Text
NOH-DCWP-Proposed-Rule-re-Implementation-of-Single-Use-Beverage-Plastic-Ban.pdf

Adopted Rule Full Text
Notice-of-Adoption_DCWP-Single-Use-Beverage-Plastics-Ban.pdf

Adopted rule summary:

The adopted rule adds a new penalty schedule to implement Local Law 64 of 2021, which creates restrictions on single-use plastic beverage straws, beverage stirrers, and beverage splash sticks (collectively, “single-use beverage plastics”)

Comments are now closed.

Online comments: 2

  • Eileen Leonard

    I support penalties for single-use beverage plastics. The City needs to do a better job than what the State has done on the plastic bag ban which is not sufficiently being enforced. Instead, multiple City government agencies must immediately begin a comprehensive public education campaign to inform citizens and every business that is covered by the law of these provisions. The City must do extensive public outreach to all food service establishments in the City prior to this November via printed letters, emails, phone calls, trade press outreach, newspaper placements, social media announcements, and more. They must inform the public, announcing the forthcoming changes via print and online media, social media, and more. The new law is easy to understand: Food service establishments may not give customers a single-use plastic beverage straw, beverage stirrer, or beverage splash guard unless the customer specifically requests one.

    Comment added October 3, 2021 10:39am

  • Joshua Spodek

    As a New York resident since the 1980s I have seen litter and garbage skyrocket, especially in recent years. I remember decades ago a lot of litter, but not things that took millennia to break down, poisonous the whole time. Their manufacture didn’t heat the globe as much as drilling fossil fuels.

    Please see the videos and images I made of the dire situation, how much litter is on our streets, overwhelmingly beverage plastic.

    – https://joshuaspodek.com/another-morning-walk-seeing-litter-in-my-neighborhood

    – https://joshuaspodek.com/pride-destroyed-the-park-washington-square-park-after-a-parade

    – https://joshuaspodek.com/video-whats-wrong-with-new-york-city

    Note this morning’s news on France banning plastic nationwide starting this January: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20211011-france-to-ban-plastic-packaging-for-fruit-and-vegetables-from-january-2022

    New York City could lead the world. Banning cigarettes was predicted to hurt business but it helped, as did pedestrianizing Times Square.

    Banning plastics will bring people to our home city to see its beauty, currently covered up with smelly, rat-attracting plastic waste.

    Comment added October 12, 2021 5:14pm