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Murashige, Laura <br /> From: Maggie Chen <chenm@hawaii.edu> <br /> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 12:00 PM COUNTY CLERK <br /> To: Council Testimony COUNTY OF HAWAI' <br /> RECEIVED <br /> Subject: FYI Big Island EPS Ban Bill Testimony Time la.n0 PM By 4 <br /> Date fr..: , , <br /> To whom this concerns, <br /> I am Maggie Chen, a college sophmore at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and I am the secretary of the <br /> Student's of Sustainability. <br /> I am for this FYI Big Island EPS Ban Bill to pass. This was the Bill 140 that Eileen 0 Hara presented last <br /> year. <br /> Polystyrene, or EPS "styrofoam", on our island is a problem. It does not biodegrade, it may break into <br /> minuscule pieces, but it simply gets harder to clean up. And when EPS goes into our water ways, animals <br /> mistake it as food and after eating it, they either die from choking on it or from the chemicals leached from the <br /> products. And the chemicals leaching from EPS does not only affect animals, but styrofoam takeaway boxes <br /> and coffee cups leach these same chemicals into our own bodies. And EPS is made out of non-renewable fossil <br /> fuels, which cannot be recycled. <br /> EPS is made out of materials and chemicals that are hazardous to both animals and humans, which cannot <br /> biodegrade or be recycled. <br /> I am for the passing of the FYI Big Island EPS Ban Bill, Bill 140. <br /> I share my concerns about the dangers EPS pose, not to attack people who do use these products (because it <br /> may be out of their control), but to try to show that this is an importan issue that will determine the world we <br /> will live in the future. <br /> Thank you for your time and consideration. <br /> Maggie Chen <br /> University of Hawaii at Hilo <br /> Dorrance Scholar <br /> chenm@hawaii.edu <br /> Comm: No. l _ <br /> Ref. To: <br /> 1 <br />