Marine Debris Prevention Act, S.2260 was approved September 25, 2019 by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and “Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar”. The “Save Our Seas 2.0: Improving Domestic Infrastructure to Prevent Marine Debris Act” provides “for the improvement of domestic infrastructure in order to prevent marine debris.” The bill includes sections on:
- A “Study on effects of microplastics in food supplies and sources of drinking water”
- A “Strategy for improving post-consumer materials management and water management”
- A grant program on “Post-Consumer Materials Management Infrastructure”
- A “Report on eliminating barriers to increase the collection of recyclable materials”
- A “Study on Repurposing Plastic Waste in Infrastructure”
- A Report on Eliminating Barriers to Increase the Collection of Recyclable materials”
- A “Report on economic incentives to spur development of new end-use markets for recycled plastics”