Chandra Rosenthal, who leads the Rocky Mountain office for the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, also said the agencywide order was heartening. “We hope that in practice the agencies move more quickly than the mandated 10-year phaseout, so we will continue to push the agencies to make the break from plastics,” Rosenthal said.
Others similarly voiced hope that the timeline would move more swiftly. Environment America’s Protect Our Oceans Campaign Director Kelsey Lamp praised the announcement but said the 2032 date “is too long to wait for plastic-free parks.” Lamp encouraged the Biden administration to move more swiftly on an initiative the group otherwise deemed “excellent.”
