Tighter Regulation of Single-Use Plastics Would Be a Much-Needed Step
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I am pleased that the American Chemistry Council (ACC) has been taking out full-page advertisements in your newspapers, because I want to see newspapers succeed and by paying you the ACC is helping your paper survive.
However, I am 100 percent in favor of governments – local, state and federal – enacting laws to limit the use of plastics, in particular single-use.
Am I a radical activist? I don’t think so. I just want to preserve the Earth.
Do I expect to pay $3,100 more because of efforts to save the Earth? No, and what’s the measure anyway, $3,100 per year? $3,100 in a lifetime? My household doesn’t buy that much plastic now; regulations are certainly not going to increase my costs that much.
Do I think conservation is going to “hurt businesses that make up the backbone of our communities?” No, in fact I think it will help preserve them because the backbone of my town is NOT Amazon, and who could possibly use more plastic than they do?
So, for me it’s a YES to better packaging, a healthier Earth and a healthy future for the coming generations.
Jeb Stuart-Bullock
Millwood
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