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You may no longer have the small plastic bottles of shampoo and conditioner lined up on your sink the next time you stay in a Hawaii hotel. 

  proposes to rid the state of these tiny toiletry items and either put their contents them in a bulk container or in other holders not made of plastic.

Lawmakers attempted to ban those plastic bottles last year, but that proposal died in the Senate without a hearing.

“Part of the reason is that some legislators are very anti-plastic ban,” Rep. Natalia Hussey-Burdick, one of HB 85’s sponsors, said.

The bill’s preamble says that that the “throwaway culture” of using these single-use plastics highlight convenience over sustainability.

The bill cites a report from the environmental group that says the amount of carbon dioxide produced by the that produced by coal-powered plants in the U.S. by 2030.

The bill states that providing plastic toiletries does not align with , which encourages sustainable tourism and seeks to minimize the negative environmental impacts from tourism.

Some lodging establishments have already transitioned away from these containers. The legislature also found that other states, and have already passed laws to phase out small plastic bottles.

The Plastics Industry Association opposes the bans. It wrote in its on HB 85 that it opposes the bill, because plastic“can do things other materials cannot.” The association instead advocates for consumers to be educated about how to properly dispose of these plastic products instead of just eliminating them. 

Hussey-Burdick thinks eliminating disposable plastics is inevitable.

“Taken individually, none of these bills are going to eliminate the plastic problem,” she said. “It’s just different ways of kind of chipping away at the problem.”