Dec. 24, 2018 San Francisco Chronicle: The president and CEO of Recology, Inc., an employee-owned company providing waste and recycling services in California, Oregon, and Washington wrote that if "the plastics industry is unable to step forward with a set of policies and programs that reverses these unfortunate trends, Recology will work to place a comprehensive policy on the next statewide California ballot — building off the EU model. We are prepared to commit $1 million toward a signature-gathering effort to that end and will work with all who are willing to move this effort forward. With plastics, as with so much else, California may need to lead the way."