Senate Bill 54 focused on Single-Use Plastics was signed during the 2021-22 legislative session and went into effect on last week. According to Cal Recycle, “Packaging makes up over 50% of what we dump in California landfills by volume” and “Californians throw away 290 Olympic pools worth of plastic a day.” The focus of the bill is to reduce single-use packaging waste and “ensure it is recycled to meet our state’s recycling and climate goals,” by pushing producers of the products to make them as easy to recycle as possible, with a focus on styrofoam’s ability to be recycled, but a lack of availability for it to be recycled.