To: Jim Taylor, Littleton Council member and Governor Jared Polis
Charge a fee for plastic bags - Littleton
The average shopper uses over 500 single use shopping bags each year. That equates out to over 1-million single use shopping bags being used in America every minute. Less than 5% of the single use plastic bags ever get recycled. Since banning plastic bags China has eliminated some 40 billion bags, the equivalent of 11.7 million barrels of oil. Each year an estimated 1-million sea birds and over 100,000 marine mammals die from ingesting plastic. Single use plastic bags that end up in our landfills take over 500 years to decompose.
We produce/consume more bags than we could ever recycle. Our only solution is to educate people to reduce usage of bags buying charging a 5 cent fee per bag. The fee can go back into a nonprofit for cleaning our ocean of plastics.
Please show your support and sign our petition so we can show Littleton officials that you agree, we need to do something now and save our planet, and educate the American people so our children have a healthy place to live.
We produce/consume more bags than we could ever recycle. Our only solution is to educate people to reduce usage of bags buying charging a 5 cent fee per bag. The fee can go back into a nonprofit for cleaning our ocean of plastics.
Please show your support and sign our petition so we can show Littleton officials that you agree, we need to do something now and save our planet, and educate the American people so our children have a healthy place to live.
Why is this important?
25% of the world's population now lives in areas with bans or fees on plastic bags. We do not live in such a place at this moment. Sadly, Plastic bags aren't biodegrade, they photodegrade - breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and entering the food web when animals accidentally ingest them.
A plastic bag can take between 400 to 1,000 years to break down in the environment.
Plastic bags cause over 100,000 sea turtle and other marine animal deaths every year when animals mistake them for food.
Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation.
Nearly 90% of the debris in our oceans is plastic.
A plastic bag can take between 400 to 1,000 years to break down in the environment.
Plastic bags cause over 100,000 sea turtle and other marine animal deaths every year when animals mistake them for food.
Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation.
Nearly 90% of the debris in our oceans is plastic.