ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — This week on Empire State Weekly, lawmakers returned to their districts after the legislative session ended in June. The session ended with a flurry of activity to get several items passed. Assemblymember Patricia Fahy, a Democrat representing Assembly District 109, weighed in on some of the successes of the legislative session. Among [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — This week on Empire State Weekly, lawmakers returned to their districts after the legislative session ended in June. The session ended with a flurry of activity to get several items passed.
Assemblymember Patricia Fahy, a Democrat representing Assembly District 109, weighed in on some of the successes of the legislative session. Among measures like the youth social media bills, that puts limits on certain addictive parts of social media, Assemblymember touted progress made in addressing retail crime.
"To really crack down on theft with preventative measures, but also aggressively going after those who organize theft, and those who even threaten a retail worker, so we're making progress, it's been slow, I think we still have more to do with youth and guns," said Fahy.
One of the key items that did not pass this legislative session was an aggressive plan to reduce the state's plastic packaging waste. The bill would have targeted the use of single-use plastics like cheese and fruit snack wrappers. Judith Enck the President of Beyond Plastics explained the idea that some popular items would be banned from store shelves if the bill passed was *not accurate.
"If Kraft still wants to wrap every single piece of cheese in film plastic they can it just means they've gotta reduce their plastic a bit more on their other products this does not ban Lunchables this does not ban single-wrapped cheese products, it's not even real cheese, but those are the arguments lawmakers had to grapple with," said Enck.
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