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New York has passed a law making it illegal for hotels to give their guests single-use plastic toiletry bottles.
The new law will ban plastic toiletry bottles smaller than 355 milliliters. Most hotel toiletries come in very small amounts — usually between 30 milliliters and 60 milliliters — which means that hotels will have to find other ways of giving their guests personal cleaning products.
The law will come into effect on January 1, 2024, for bigger hotels, but smaller businesses with fewer than 50 rooms will have an extra year to prepare for the change. President of the New York State Hospitality & Tourism Association Mark Dorr, who helped write the law, has said that the delay will mean that hotels will have time to use all of the toiletries they still have, and give them time to get new alternatives ready.
Hotels will have to put dispensers in their guest rooms that can be refilled with things like soap and shampoo, or find other alternatives that are better for the environment than single-use bottles.
Eric Goldstein of America's Natural Resources Defense Council said that the new law will stop tens of millions of plastic bottles every year from being thrown away.
New York is not the first US state to ban single-use toiletry bottles, however. California passed a similar ban in 2019, although it will not come into effect until 2023.

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紐約通過一條法律,將禁止飯店業者使用容量 355 毫升以下的塑膠盥洗用具瓶罐。多數飯店的盥洗用品容量都很少,通常在 30 毫升至 60 毫升之間。這項法律的通過,意味著飯店業者將必須尋找其他方式,來提供顧客私人清潔用品。飯店將必須在客房內安裝可重複補充肥皂或洗髮精等的分配器,或是比起一次性瓶罐,對於環境較友善的替代選項。美國資源保護協會的 Eric Goldstein 表示,新法規將停止每年丟棄數千萬塑膠瓶罐的狀況。不過,紐約並非美國第一個禁用一次性盥洗用具瓶罐的州。加州在 2019 年通過類似的禁令。

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