
Twelve years ago, state environmental regulators mandated that zero trash should be flowing to the Bay from city storm drains by 2022, so fish and wildlife wouldn’t be poisoned by a pollutant they had largely ignored. But today trash is still fouling the Bay shoreline and creeks that flow to the Bay for three reasons. Cities aren’t screening enough road trash or stopping dumping in creeks. Regulators aren’t enforcing the Clean Water Act. And we’re all still using too much plastic packaging and disposable items that end up in the Bay, not landfills. In 2010 the SF Bay Regional Water …