To: President Donald Trump, The Colorado State House, The Colorado State Senate, Governor Jared Polis, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Beyond Bag-Banning: Longer-Range Goals
1) Require manufacturers and/or bottlers to offer a redemption value on bottles and plastic. Placing a recycle value as was done with glass bottles and aluminum cans created a business that made recycling a profitable enterprise. This could be legislated at the state and/or national level with tax incentives to compensate the companies for their conservation efforts. Such programs in place in other countries and works quite well.
2) Issue more tickets and enforce fines for littering.
3) Continue to educate about the importance of separating paper and plastic and recycling on the environment.
4) Encourage separation of paper and plastic and recycling by placing trash containers that are clearly labeled "paper", "plastic" and "aluminum" locally around your town. The town could derive financial benefit from accumulating and reselling such recycled materials.
5) Petition state and national governments to implement legislation that would require all industries to replace non-biodegradable packaging materials for bio-degradable ones, and offer tax-saving incentives to do so.
If anyone can think of any other ideas, please let me know.
Fred Pulver
Why is this important?
Our environment continues to be trashed daily by people who don't know or don't care about the damage their littering and improper disposal of waste from their consumption is causing.
I am therefore proposing some incentives that hopefully will make a difference before we completely destroy our planet and all the creatures that depend on it as a clean place to live.