Target: Jenny Durkan, Mayor of Seattle
Goal: Congratulate Seattle on banning plastic straws.
Seattle just scored a huge victory for their local ecology and the ocean waters around the Puget Sound by officially outlawing the usage of plastic straws. We have been talking about this issue for quite some time and Seattle just made leaps and bounds in the right direction. The ban of plastic straws in Seattle officially marks a step forward in the fight against disposable plastics.
Plastic straws are one of the top pollutants of the world’s ocean ecology and considering the U.S. consumes 500 million plastic straws on a daily basis, we’ve got a long way to go to undo some of the damage done by these harmful plastics. We still have petitions to the EPA, the United Nations, and many other worldwide organizations dedicated to protecting our ecology. We need your help to keep spreading the word that plastics have no place in our waters. Right now though, we congratulate Seattle on a huge step in the right direction.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mayor Durkan,
This victory in the fight against disposable plastics in our oceans is one of the many incredible news stories to come out of Seattle. Thank you for your help in turning Seattle into a place where people can truly vote with their progressive values. Thanks to the legislation of the Seattle City Council, the future of the oceans is looking a lot cleaner.
We encourage you in your progressive efforts and hope you continue to pleasantly surprise the rest of the world with your policy decisions. Thanks to your bright eyes for the future, our children have a home to look forward to. We thank you for your efforts, Seattle.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit:JnL
We really need to do better in recycling out plastics, its just sad. This is a first good step.
recycling plastic maybe good but its the best to ban plastic waste.
This is great news, but we need to eliminate styrofoam, that stays in our landfills forever.
screw plastic.
500 million every single day. Unconscionable waste. That is more straws per day than the entire population of the United States. Europeans are far less wasteful than trashy Americans, leaving a wake of single-use plastic trash wherever they go. I hope the rest of the country gets with the program soon.