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From: Jackson Streiter [reystreiterohana @gmail.com] v
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 8:39 PM �.•i ;a - 7 ,
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us�
Cc: dgoodale @hualalai.org
Subject: Testimony for Bill #17
Plastic Bag Reduction Bill
Jackson Streiter
12;7th grade
75 -5770 Melelina St.
Kailua- Kona,Hawaii,96740
revstreiterohana(r)gma l.com
There is a huge problem in the world. How do we humans help prevent it? The problem is the whole idea of
plastic bags. Plastic bags are made from oil which an army of soldiers are fighting for in the countries of Iraq and
Iran. Plastic bags satisfy some people but others feel they are destroying the world. My opinion on this topic is
that plastic bags should be banned. No animal should have to suffer just because of one plastic bag they might
have eaten or one bag that might have choked them around the neck. Plastic bags are out of control out there in
the world. Some people are very aware about problems like this and some people are ignorant about problems like
this.
Plastic bags cause a lot of problems in the world such as hurting or even killing marine animals including birds.
More then 1 million marine animals die each year due to plastic bags. More then 100,000 birds are killed each
year. These animals are either suffocated or drowned. They are suffocated because the plastic bags are either
around their neck or the bag has literally covered their body to where they can't breathe. They are drowned
because the bag my get caught on their fin and they can't swim and they get trapped. Some marine animals such as
turtles have plastic bags as apart of their diet.
Plastic bags don't just kill animals they create pollution. Plastic bags are made out of a natural oil called
polyethylene. They take the polyethylene in the factory and make it into plastic bags. Even after a plastic bag
degrades it has toxic fumes from the chemicals that are mixed in with the oil. One plastic bag takes 1,000 years to
degrade only in a landfill.
Plastic bags aren't the only bag out in the world. There are paper and cloth. The difference between the three is
that paper is made out of trees which we can replant and cloth is made from different materials wether they are
sewn together or even made out of recycled materials. Plastic bags may be more durable then paper but when
paper is made it does not pollute as much. As we all know paper is made out of trees and we cut down trees to
make those paper bags. Unlike oil trees can be replanted and reused over time. Cloth bags have the materials to
where they could be used many more times then both plastic and paper. You can wash them and reuse them and
reuse them.
The solution of the plastic bags is using either paper and or cloth bags. If you don't want to that you may use
plastic bags and then reuse them when you go to the store and if they rip see if you can make something out of
them. Me personally I would use cloth or paper but at the moment I do use plastic bags,cloth bags and paper bags.
I am going to help out and try just using cloth or paper. So lets help change the world together as one island.
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1/31/2011 Ref. Date FE Z911