Plastic Policy, Drought in Italy, & more!

Matt and Giselle talk about California placing recycling costs on plastic producers (California Requires Plastics Makers to Foot the Bill for Recycling - The New York Times (nytimes.com)),

Canada’s ban on grocery bags, takeout containers, and stir sticks (Canada is banning the sale, production and import of some single-use plastics | Engadget),

High amount of plastic in Asian elephant diet in India (New Study Documents the Extent of Plastic Ingestion as an Emerging Threat to Endangered Asian Elephants in Uttarakhand, India),

And drought in Italy’s impact on rice - and risotto (Rice fields dry up as Italy's drought lingers on | AP News)!