The costs and impacts of single-use plastics are often not accounted for in the price of the product. Image: Meryll/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffGSA has proposed rules for reducing “single-use, unrecyclable, difficult to recycle, or frequently littered” plastics in purchases under the Federal Supply Schedules, saying that would reduce waste and reduce costs to agencies.
“Single-use plastic packaging has an additional cost that is often built into the proposed price, or the price is later realized in the cost of waste management. In addition, the cost of cleaning up environmental pollution and the cost of impacts to human health created by single-use plastics are often not accounted for in the price of the product,” says a notice in the December 26 Federal Register.
The GSA noted that it earlier added similar provisions to its internal policy guidance and said that expanding them would be consistent with the Federal Sustainability Plan and other federal, state and local environmental protection policies.
The GSA earlier had said it was considering issuing such rules and asked for information on single-use plastics in packaging and shipping and alternatives such as paper based or biodegradable packaging.
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