What’s one way to respond to our current recycling crisis to curb our consumption rates?
Legislation.
PennEnvironment Executive Director David Masur and (mostly southeast PA Democratic) state legislators announced a “Zero Waste PA” package of bills with goals to reduce waste, litter and encourage recycling/reuse last Wednesday.
As Masur said in a press release,
“Every day, unwitting Pennsylvanians are barraged with products that we’re expected to purchase and use, and then throw away. Only, there is no ‘away,’. Instead, it ends up in landfills where it can cause water pollution, in incinerators that cause air pollution, or blowing around in our neighborhoods in the form of litter.”
Nothing we use for a few minutes should pollute our environment, neighborhoods, rivers and oceans for centuries to come.”
David Masur, Executive Director, PennEnvironment
We’ll share calls-to-actions shortly. Here are two currently on the PennEnvironment website:
PennEnvironment currently has a petition to ban Styrofoam.
Stop drinking single-use water bottles. Sign the pledge:
You’ll likely see rebuttals for many of these bills in coming weeks and months. When you do, check who is disbursing the information – it may likely be special interests and corporate lobby groups.
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