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    Call today to support the Connect The Cap Plastic Bottle Bill!! Monday may be too late!

    Help get the Connect The Cap Plastic Bottle Bill to the Assembly Floor!


    On Monday, April 9th, AB 2779 (Stone and Calderon) - formerly AB 319 aka Leash the Lid, will be heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee. This bill will ensure that all plastic bottles collected in California's bottle deposit/ CRV program have caps connected so they don't escape into the environment and add to the ocean plastic pollution problem.

    In response to public pressure in the 1970s, the beverage Industry redesigned the aluminum pull tab on soda cans to help solve the litter problem their cans were creating. Then they transitioned beverage packaging almost entirely to plastic, and recreated the SAME problem. Rather than fix it, the beverage industry (primarily Coca Cola and Pepsi) have decided it's easier to fight (legislation) than switch (the design of their polluting plastic bottles).


    HELP US get AB 2779 to the Assembly Floor! There are two things you can do.
    1) Send a support letter. Email your letter to: [email protected] and [email protected]

    2) Generate CALLS from CONSTITUENTS to the following legislators - all Democrats, before April 9. Calls are best - the web contact system does not allow for residents from other districts to contact Assembly members:


    District, Committee Members, Office & Contact Information
    66, Al Muratsuchi (Acting Chair), Dem, Capitol Office, Room 2179, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0066; (916) 319-2066, Contact

    49, Ed Chau, Dem, Capitol Office, Room 5016, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0049; (916) 319-2049, Contact

    13, Susan Talamantes Eggman, Dem, Capitol Office, Room 4117 P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0013; (916) 319-2013, Contact

    37, Monique Limón, Dem, Capitol Office, Room 6031, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0037; (916) 319-2037, Contact

    07, Kevin McCarty, Dem, Capitol Office, Room 2136, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0007; (916) 319-2007, Contact

    For additional info or to get involved, visit the Albatross Coalition

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    Re: Call today to support the Connect The Cap Plastic Bottle Bill!! Monday may be too late

    AB 2779 - Connect the Cap, got out of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee! More details as they roll in!
    Thanks!!!

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    Help get the Connect The Cap Plastic Bottle Bill to the Assembly Floor!


    On Monday, April 9th, AB 2779 (Stone and Calderon) - formerly AB 319 aka Leash the Lid, will be heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee. This bill will ensure that all plastic bottles collected in California's bottle deposit/ CRV program have caps connected so they don't escape into the environment and add to the ocean plastic pollution problem.

    In response to public pressure in the 1970s, the beverage Industry redesigned the aluminum pull tab on soda cans to help solve the litter problem their cans were creating. Then they transitioned beverage packaging almost entirely to plastic, and recreated the SAME problem. Rather than fix it, the beverage industry (primarily Coca Cola and Pepsi) have decided it's easier to fight (legislation) than switch (the design of their polluting plastic bottles).


    HELP US get AB 2779 to the Assembly Floor! There are two things you can do.
    1) Send a support letter. Email your letter to: [email protected] and [email protected]

    2) Generate CALLS from CONSTITUENTS to the following legislators - all Democrats, before April 9. Calls are best - the web contact system does not allow for residents from other districts to contact Assembly members:


    District, Committee Members, Office & Contact Information
    66, Al Muratsuchi (Acting Chair), Dem, Capitol Office, Room 2179, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0066; (916) 319-2066, Contact

    49, Ed Chau, Dem, Capitol Office, Room 5016, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0049; (916) 319-2049, Contact

    13, Susan Talamantes Eggman, Dem, Capitol Office, Room 4117 P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0013; (916) 319-2013, Contact

    37, Monique Limón, Dem, Capitol Office, Room 6031, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0037; (916) 319-2037, Contact

    07, Kevin McCarty, Dem, Capitol Office, Room 2136, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0007; (916) 319-2007, Contact

    For additional info or to get involved, visit the Albatross Coalition

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