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Murashige, Laura
From: robert kolman [game_boy_234 @hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:54 PM (' li �iit '7 ,
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Cc: dgoodale @hualalai.org
Testimony for Bill #17 (Plastic Bag Reduction Bill)
Robert Kolman
14; 9th grade
79 -7253 St. Paul Rd.
Kealekekua, Hawaii
game_boy_234 @hotmail.com
• The U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic bags a year costing retailers abour $4 billion dollars
• The cost to make one plastic bag is 1 to 4 cents
• The tax of 15 cents per bag is paid when customers leave the store (some of the tax is
hidden in products)
• The cost of bag contamination amounts to $494,000 a year
• It takes $100,000 annually to clear machinery jams due to plastic bags
• $100,000 annually in reduced revenue on the sale of recyclable material is due to bag
contamination
This ammounts to an annual cost of $694,000, which is 1.4 cents per bag
• Removing plastic, picking up litter and reduced revenue of the sale of compostable materials
due to bag contamination totals $400,000 annually
This is .8 cents a bag
• Based on the 2% waste stream that is paper and plastic bags, the annual cost of collection
and disposal for bags alone is $3,600,000
This is 7.2 cents a bag
• The annual cost of street cleaning is $26,000,000
This is 5.2 cents a bag
• 10% of the amount spent on litter collection is spent on bag collection and transportation this
amounts to $2,600,000 annually
This is 5.2 cents a bag
• The annaul cost for future liability amounts to $1,200,000 a year
This is 2.4 cents a bag
• This comes out to be 17 cents a bag
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1/31/2011
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For these reasons i am for the passing of bill #17
1/31/2011