Ban the use of lightweight plastic bags in the state of Missouri. The ban would include plastic bags provided at grocery store checkout counters and at all similar retail merchant locations.
Why is this important?
Lightweight plastic bags are ugly, they don't go away, few locales and fewer individuals recycle them and they kill wildlife when tossed into our woods and streams. We don't need them and we lived perfectly well without them only a few years ago. Missouri has a strong heritage of support for our state's natural beauty - these eye-sores have to go.
