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From: Donna R. Goodale [donna @goodale.org]
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 6:57 PM
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii. hi. us
Subject: FW: Bill #17
From: Yvanna Menendez [mailto:xx. rain bowlove @yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 5:56 PM
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Cc: dgoodale @hualalai.org
Subject: Bill #17
Testimony for Bill # 17 (Plastic Bag Reduction Bill)
Yvanna Menendez
Age: 15; 9th grade
73 -4697 Hina Lani St.
Kailua -Kona, HI 96745
xx.RainbowLove @yahoo.com
Reasons To Reduce The Use Of Plastic Bags
1. They use up Natural Resources
2. Plastic bags harm Wildlife and Marine Life
3. It creates litter
4. They take a long time to Biodegrade
- Plastic bags take 1,000 years to Biodegrade
-A plastic bag floating around as litter takes 20 yearsThey're expensive
5. Between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year
6. It costs $4000 to process and recycle 1 ton of plastic bags
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-It costs more to recycle a bag than produce one
7. Nearly 200 different species of sea life die because of plastic bags
8. By using a cloth bag we can save:
-6 bags a week = 24 bags a month = 288 bags per year = 22,176 bags saved in a
LIFETIME
-If just 1 our of 5 people did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our
lifetime
9. China will save 37 million barrels of oil each year due to their banned of free plastic
bags
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