Jack, sign the petition: Ban single-use plastics!

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The United States generates enough plastic waste to fill a football stadium every day. That is absurd and hazardous! Only 8% of that plastic is recycled, leaving the rest to be landfilled, incinerated, or littered. Nearly half of U.S. plastic waste comes from single-use products and packaging.

The pollution does not stop there, as there’s even plastic in our food. Tiny fragments of plastic, called microplastics, are accumulating in the soil where our food is grown and in the seafood we eat from our oceans. Plastics, including single-use, break down and can result in humans potentially ingesting the equivalent of a credit card's worth of microplastics every week.

And it gets worse still: Plastics are a fossil fuel product, meaning plastic production continues to exacerbate our already dire climate crisis.

It’s past time for immediate action. Join us in urging Congress to enact a nationwide ban on single-use plastics. This is not just an environmental issue – it's a matter of public health and protecting our future generations.

Sign the petition: Ban single-use plastics!

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Thanks for all you do,
Erin Tulley, Daily Kos