The National Park Service’s plan to ban single-use plastics at its 425 park sites by 2032 moves far too slowly, an environmental advocacy group said Tuesday.
In an analysis of the plan, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility called it “needlessly protracted, encumbered by red tape, and dependent for implementation upon a notoriously ineffective NPS Washington office.”
PEER said the agency would spend the next two years in “policy development,” with no significant implementation beginning until later this decade.