Direct City Staff to enact an emergency ordinance banning plastic beverage bottles, plastic straws, plastic utensils and any departmental promotional merchandise using plastic to reflect authentic sustainable environmental values. Plastic is the No. 1 threat to marine ecosystems. Bottled packaging plants negatively affect public health, annual purchases of bottled water are 2000 times more expensive than using tap water. On top of that, tap water has significantly lower rates of potentially damaging substances.
Why is this important?
The Environmental Sector of Compassionate Santa Monica aligned with Earth Day Network Educational Campaign: A World Without Plastic Pollution--which is mobilizing compassionate citizens across the globe to bring about a new level of consciousness and change around plastics pollution. The world must perceive plastics not only as an environmental challenge of global proportions but as a marker of the human values that must change in order to build a more sustainable and just world. Scientific research reveals the adverse impact plastics have on Public Health.
To that end, we have created 2 other petitions addressed to the Board of Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District, Santa Monica College Board of Trustees.
