{"id":3675,"date":"2020-02-12T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-wyden-want-to-take-oregons-bottle-bill-national\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:05","slug":"merkley-wyden-want-to-take-oregons-bottle-bill-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-wyden-want-to-take-oregons-bottle-bill-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley y Wyden quieren nacionalizar la Ley de Botellas de Oreg\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (KTVZ) &#8212; Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Wednesday the introduction of a pair of bills that offer multiple pathways to tackling America&rsquo;s growing plastic pollution crisis, including a national version of Oregon&rsquo;s groundbreaking &ldquo;bottle bill.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>El&nbsp;<em>Ley de botellas de reciclaje original (OR) de 2020<\/em>&nbsp;would establish a federal &ldquo;bottle bill&rdquo; recycling program, modeled after Oregon&rsquo;s. And the&nbsp;<em>Ley de Liberaci\u00f3n de la Contaminaci\u00f3n por Pl\u00e1sticos de 2020<\/em>\u2014que surge en medio de las crecientes preocupaciones sobre la ingesti\u00f3n involuntaria de pl\u00e1stico y el papel de los pl\u00e1sticos en alimentar el caos clim\u00e1tico\u2014 eliminar\u00eda gradualmente los productos pl\u00e1sticos de un solo uso innecesarios y requerir\u00eda que las corporaciones hicieran su parte justa para abordar su contaminaci\u00f3n pl\u00e1stica.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&ldquo;Nobody wants their children ingesting dangerous chemicals and microscopic plastics,&rdquo;&nbsp;said Merkley.&nbsp;&ldquo;Nobody wants to go to the beach and see mountains of single-use plastic waste.&nbsp; And plastic production is a major driver of pollution accelerating the climate crisis.&nbsp; An America with the creativity to invent a million uses for plastic has the creativity to design better alternatives.&nbsp; Our kids&#8217; health and futures depend on America solving this problem.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oregon&#8217;s &lsquo;bottle bill&rsquo; has seen huge success, and Oregonians should be proud. Last year alone, the state recycled 90 percent of its bottles and cans,&rdquo;&nbsp;Wyden said.&nbsp;&ldquo;By taking the Oregon Way nationwide, this legislation will do more than sweep the garbage under the rug. It will ensure an all-hands-on-deck effort to clean up our roadsides, beaches, and rivers to protect the health of our planet and families.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>El pl\u00e1stico est\u00e1 en todas partes y no puede degradarse; en cambio, se descompone en micropl\u00e1sticos, que se han encontrado en el agua de lluvia, en los picos de las Monta\u00f1as Rocosas, en el suelo de las tierras de cultivo que produce nuestros alimentos y en nuestros lagos, r\u00edos y mares. Se ha vuelto casi imposible evitar la exposici\u00f3n a los pl\u00e1sticos, y los informes recientes estiman que cada persona&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ingests a credit card&rsquo;s worth of plastic per week (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-environment-plastic\/you-may-be-eating-a-credit-cards-worth-of-plastic-each-week-study-idUSKCN1TD009\" target=\"_blank\">ingiere el valor de una tarjeta de cr\u00e9dito de pl\u00e1stico por semana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ethane&mdash;a natural gas liquid&mdash;and other products refined from crude oil are used to produce the basic building blocks for making plastics, making these products a major contributor to the climate crisis. And&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"less than 10 percent of plastic waste is actually recycled. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2017\/07\/plastic-produced-recycling-waste-ocean-trash-debris-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\">less than 10 percent of plastic waste is actually recycled.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ley de Lib\u00e9rese de la Contaminaci\u00f3n Pl\u00e1stica de 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Transferir la responsabilidad del reciclaje y la limpieza a las empresas que producen productos de desecho brinda a las empresas estadounidenses los incentivos para innovar estrategias pr\u00e1cticas de reducci\u00f3n y gesti\u00f3n de desechos que pueden revertir esta tendencia y poner a los Estados Unidos en el camino para liberarse de la contaminaci\u00f3n pl\u00e1stica.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>El&nbsp;<em>Ley para liberarse de la contaminaci\u00f3n pl\u00e1stica<\/em>&nbsp;proporcionar\u00e1 el liderazgo nacional que tanto se necesita, reduciendo la cantidad de pl\u00e1stico de desecho y reformando nuestro sistema de recolecci\u00f3n de desechos y reciclaje rotos. Cambiar\u00e1 la carga de la limpieza a donde pertenece: a las corporaciones que producen estos desechos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exigir que las grandes corporaciones asuman la responsabilidad de su contaminaci\u00f3n, exigiendo a los productores de productos pl\u00e1sticos que dise\u00f1en, gestionen y financien programas de residuos y reciclaje.<\/li>\n<li>Estimular la innovaci\u00f3n, incentivando a las grandes corporaciones a fabricar productos y art\u00edculos reutilizables que realmente se puedan reciclar.<\/li>\n<li>Reducir y prohibir ciertos productos de pl\u00e1stico de un solo uso que no son reciclables.<\/li>\n<li>Establecer requisitos m\u00ednimos de contenido reciclado para envases de bebidas, empaques y productos de servicio de alimentos, mientras se estandariza el etiquetado de reciclaje y compostaje.<\/li>\n<li>Estimule inversiones masivas en infraestructura de compostaje y reciclaje dom\u00e9stico de EE. UU., mientras presiona la pausa en nuevas instalaciones de pl\u00e1stico hasta que se implementen protecciones ambientales y de salud cr\u00edticas.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&ldquo;Nearly 9 million tons of plastic enter the ocean each year, threatening wildlife, humans and the ecosystems we all depend on,&rdquo;&nbsp;said Dr. Don Moore, Oregon Zoo director.&nbsp;&ldquo;Reducing plastic pollution will take the combined efforts of consumers, businesses and governments. The Oregon Zoo supports Senators Merkley and Udall in taking this action to protect the health of America&rsquo;s food, water and environment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A los senadores Merkley y Wyden se unieron los senadores Tom Udall (D-NM), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) y Kamala Harris (D-CA) para presentar la legislaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ley de botellas de reciclaje original (OR) de 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p>El&nbsp;<em>O Ley de botellas de 2020<\/em>&nbsp;se basa en un modelo exitoso implementado en Oreg\u00f3n desde 1971 que requiere que todas las botellas y latas sean elegibles para ser devueltas despu\u00e9s de su uso por un valor de reembolso m\u00ednimo. Al igual que en Oreg\u00f3n, esta legislaci\u00f3n de &quot;proyecto de ley de botella&quot; estimular\u00eda los esfuerzos de reciclaje a trav\u00e9s de la implementaci\u00f3n del sector privado, sin tarifas de manejo, restricciones sobre c\u00f3mo se opera el sistema de reembolsos o c\u00f3mo se manejan los dep\u00f3sitos no canjeados.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Este proyecto de ley ofrece una plantilla para que los distribuidores de bebidas participen en sistemas regionales organizados para recolectar, transportar y procesar envases, incluida una alternativa al canje de contenedores en la tienda con la creaci\u00f3n de centros de canje.<\/p>\n<p>En su nivel m\u00e1s b\u00e1sico, el sistema funciona de la siguiente manera:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Los minoristas como las tiendas de comestibles pagan a los distribuidores de bebidas un centavo por cada envase de bebida entregado.<\/li>\n<li>Los clientes pagan diez centavos a los minoristas en el momento de la compra.<\/li>\n<li>Los clientes devuelven los contenedores a un minorista y reciben una moneda de diez centavos.<\/li>\n<li>Los distribuidores recuperan los contenedores de los minoristas y pagan un centavo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Los distribuidores que no logren una tasa de recuperaci\u00f3n del 75 por ciento perder\u00e1n ante la Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n Ambiental de EE. UU. (EPA) el monto de los dep\u00f3sitos de envases de bebidas no redimidos recibidos por el distribuidor. Esos fondos luego ser\u00e1n utilizados por la EPA para marketing y divulgaci\u00f3n relacionados con el programa de facturaci\u00f3n de botellas. El gobierno federal no participar\u00eda en el proceso de redenci\u00f3n o reembolso, pero mantendr\u00eda una funci\u00f3n de supervisi\u00f3n para garantizar la confianza del consumidor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (KTVZ) &#8212; Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Wednesday the introduction of a pair of bills that offer multiple pathways to tackling America&rsquo;s growing plastic pollution crisis, including a national version of Oregon&rsquo;s groundbreaking &ldquo;bottle bill.&rdquo; The&nbsp;Original Recycling (OR) Bottle Act of 2020&nbsp;would establish a federal &ldquo;bottle bill&rdquo; recycling program, modeled after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley, Wyden want to take Oregon\u2019s Bottle Bill national - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-wyden-want-to-take-oregons-bottle-bill-national\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley, Wyden want to take Oregon\u2019s Bottle Bill national - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON (KTVZ) &#8212; Sens. 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