To: Barbara Bailey (WA-10)
Charge a deposit on ALL aluminum, glass, and plastic beverage containers
If beverage containers along our roads are an eyesore to you, PLEASE sign this petition to get a deposit on these containers at the time of sale.
Why is this important?
I am on a one-woman campaign (with many others!) to get our environment picked up and clean.
On my daily bicycling rides (appr. 10 mi.), I pick up aluminum cans along the road. This makes my riding time twice as long and sometimes I am exhausted by the 25 to 100 times I get off and on my bicycle. It hurts my eyes and heart to see how careless people throw anything by the side of the road. If we could charge a deposit on beverage containers, people would be less likely to throw them out of the car; people could supplement their income by getting cash for what they picked up and children would be inspired to check and clean up as they too could cash in what they retrieve.
This is a win-win solution to a terribly ugly situation.
On my daily bicycling rides (appr. 10 mi.), I pick up aluminum cans along the road. This makes my riding time twice as long and sometimes I am exhausted by the 25 to 100 times I get off and on my bicycle. It hurts my eyes and heart to see how careless people throw anything by the side of the road. If we could charge a deposit on beverage containers, people would be less likely to throw them out of the car; people could supplement their income by getting cash for what they picked up and children would be inspired to check and clean up as they too could cash in what they retrieve.
This is a win-win solution to a terribly ugly situation.