Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing your views and opinious on why should goverment ban the use of polythene and polybags
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With the legislative session well underway, I am writing to encourage the residents and representatives of Northwest Florida to support HB93/S162 in order to give local governments the ability to protect their communities from the harmful impact of single-use plastics.
HB93/S162 would allow municipalities with populations under 100,000 to create a pilot program to regulate or ban disposable plastics. As I am sure you are aware, Florida lawmakers passed a bill in 2008 forbidding local governments from making their own policies regarding single-use plastics until the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) could create recommendations and those recommendations are adopted by the Legislature. The DEP made recommendations to discourage the use of single-use plastics, but the Legislature still has not adopted it.
There is a great deal of scientifically based information regarding the damage caused to wildlife and the environment by the plastic pollution. Our economy relies so much on tourism and ecotourism, the impacts of plastic pollution has been shown to have an adverse impact on this industry.
We urge you not only to support the current legislation, but we ask that local municipalities draft a resolution in support of HB93/S162. To date, over 25 communities in Florida have drafted and signed resolutions to this effect, including Pensacola.
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