Alamida County District Attorney Nancy Marie said Monday that Auckland (CBS SF), the retail giant Costco, and a coffee company in North Carolina, have agreed to pay a $500,000 civil penalty. To solve the problem of selling plastic coffee bags.
The so-called reconciliation is based on the accusations of Costco, which is located in Issaquah, Wash., and Roseville's JBR, which sells coffee as the San Francisco Bay Café and the Rogers Family Company. These plastic coffee bags are untrue and misleading. Marketing statement, including statements related to biodegradability and compostability, O'Malley said.
O'Malley said in a statement: 'California's consumers trying to help reduce plastic waste in landfills are often mistakenly thought that plastic products marked as biodegradable will lose control in municipal waste. Misleading consumers, the state legislature prohibits the sale of plastic products with misleading language, which means that they will biodegrade.
O'Malley said that consumers who are interested in transferring plastic waste from landfills to municipal compost facilities should look for products that meet the scientific compostability standards, especially
Compostable plastic certification is called 'ASTM D6400'.
The plastic coffee bags sold by San Francisco Bay Gourmet Coffee and the plastic bags they came in were marked as '97% biodegradable' and 'biodegradable', and the law prohibited the sale of such products and composting, although the law banned them according to O'Malley. , Such products cannot be sold unless certain criteria are met.
O'Malley said that the company also labeled its 'cup' coffee bag as a 'no plastic cup' with its ring, net and part of the lid made of plant plastic.
5. Morris Jacobson, a judge of the High Court of Alameda County, issued a final decision to deal with the matter.
O'Malley said that plastic waste may take up to a thousand years to decompose. It also depends on the waste disposal environment.
She said that landfills are particularly inclined to make garbage mummified instead of biodegradable, because decomposition requires sunlight, moisture and oxygen.
The decision barred Costco and JBR from selling plastic coffee bags if they were indeed marked as 'biodegradable'. Unless scientific certification supports the statement, these companies are also prohibited from selling them.
