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 Our culture has found many ways to choose convenience over careful decision making. We support a ban on plastic takeout bags at grocery stores, restaurants and retail establishments in Fairfax and beyond. Many of our businesses have chosen to adopt this practice without the measure. But, our measure has encouraged other towns to do the same. We don't see this as a paper vs. plastic debate. We see this as disposable bags vs. reusable cloth bags. One store-Good Earth Natural Food Stores along with their customers have voluntarily reduced their use of plastic by 1.7 tons in the last year. We believe that Americans are ready to make the right choice!
More info to come as the election nears.
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Across the world, cities and entire nations are protecting the environment by banning plastic bags. In the Bay Area, both San Francisco and Oakland have taken the modest step of banning plastic shopping bags.
It’s time to ban the bags from Fairfax, too.
Globally the production and use of plastic bags cause significant environmental impacts every year, including the use of huge amounts of oil, natural gas and other petroleum products and the deaths of countless marine animals through ingestion and entanglement. Locally, plastic bags also create significant litter problems in Fairfax’s streets, parks creeks and open space lands.
Plastic bags do not biodegrade and long-lasting lastic fragments act as "sponges" for dangerous compounds such as dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB), and other toxic materials in ocean water. Plastics have been found to concentrate these toxic chemicals at levels of up to one million times the levels found in seawater. These highly contaminated fragments cause hormone disruption in the fish that ingest them, and in the humans that ingest the fish.
Billions of plastic bags are used annually in California.
Most plastic bags are not recyclable and nationally, less than 1% of all plastic bags are recycled.
The solution to the plastic shopping bag problem is to permanently end their use and encourage the use of reusable bags. .
On Election Day, we strongly urge you to support Measure C.
It’s the least we can do for our marine life and the health of our planet.
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