There is a significant area in which Santa Clara's Sustainability Program lags, and that is in the City's embrace of plastic, such as with synthetic turf or other large applications. In 2019 USB research concluded "Plastics have surprisingly carbon-intense life cycles." Plastics not only degrade into nano-particles, which hurt ocean life, "emissions from plastics in 2015 were equivalent to nearly 1.8 billion metric tons of CO2." Santa Clara should remedy this oversight. (https://bit.ly/3GgOEjR)
There is a significant area in which Santa Clara's Sustainability Program lags, and that is in the City's embrace of plastic, such as with synthetic turf or other large applications. In 2019 USB research concluded "Plastics have surprisingly carbon-intense life cycles." Plastics not only degrade into nano-particles, which hurt ocean life, "emissions from plastics in 2015 were equivalent to nearly 1.8 billion metric tons of CO2." Santa Clara should remedy this oversight. (https://bit.ly/3GgOEjR)