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From: Aly [horsewhisperer98 @gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 9:29 AM
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Cc: Mrs. Goodale
Subject: Testimony for Bi11#17
Testimony for bill #17
(Plastic Bag reduction Bill)
Alyssa Loratta
12; 7th grade
P.O. Box 629
Kailua- kona,Hawaii, 96740
horsewhisperer98 a gmail.com
Ban Plastic Bags!
Millions of plastic bags are used a day... But do they need to be wasted? So many animals
are dying a year because of plastic bags. If you think about it, you have probably killed over
100 animals by just using and not recycling plastic bags. Plastic bags are a hazard to everyone
and everything. To help we could recycle then , ban them, reuse
them over, and over, or the best solution is to just use clothe bags.
If we do all those things we could save many animals from suffering and dying from them. It
would also help out ecosystem because with plastic bags they use 12 million barrels of polyethylene in
the U.S. To make plastic bags.
If we banned plastic bags we wouldn't have all that oil. Most of the time the oil and plastic bags
get into the ocean. Plastic bags have killed over 267 marine species.
Even paper bags are bad too. People chop down approximately 14 million trees a year to
produce paper bags. Americans produce more than 10 billion paper bags per year, can u imagine how
many trees they must cut down to produce all those paper bags?
Also not only marine animals suffer from plastic bags so do flying and land animals. Out of 100
trillion plastic bags only 1% is recycled. So use clothe bags, and help SAVE THE PLANET!
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