{"id":31968,"date":"2014-03-15T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/2014\/03\/15\/banning-plastic-bags-is-essential\/"},"modified":"2014-03-15T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T16:09:03","slug":"banning-plastic-bags-is-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/nonresearch-en\/2014\/banning-plastic-bags-is-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning plastic bags is essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/opinion\/content\/20140209-kate-weymouth-banning-plastic-bags-is-essential.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/opinion\/content\/20140209-kate-weymouth-banning-plastic-bags-is-essential.ece<\/a>\n\nKate Weymouth: Banning plastic bags is essential\nFebruary 09, 2014 05:33 PM\n\nIt was interesting to read Elaine Gambardella&amp;rsquo;s earnest but misinformed\nresponse (&amp;ldquo;Punishing the public,&amp;rdquo; letter, Feb. 4) to Rep. Maria\nCimini&amp;rsquo;s\nintroduction of a state-wide plastic bag ban.\n\nWhile I applaud her &amp;ldquo;faithful&amp;rdquo; recycling efforts, the fact is that, on\naverage, only 11 percent of a year&amp;rsquo;s worth of produced plastic bags is\nrecycled, and half of those are sent to China where they are recycled in\nhighly toxic processes.\n\nAlso important to note, that while her creative phrase &amp;ldquo;reuse, recycle,\nand restore&amp;rdquo; conveniently supports her opinion, it is misquoted. The\nthree R&amp;rsquo;s of waste management and minimization (and the motto for those\nof us who do place the future health of our planet as a &amp;ldquo;first&amp;rdquo;) are\nactually &amp;ldquo;reduce, reuse, recycle.&amp;rdquo; Rep. Maria Cimini&amp;rsquo;s bill addresses\nthe first, and what is universally accepted as the most effective piece\nof the waste management hierarchy.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/opinion\/content\/20140209-kate-weymouth-banning-plastic-bags-is-essential.ece Kate Weymouth: Banning plastic bags is essential February 09, 2014 05:33 PM It was interesting to read Elaine Gambardella&amp;rsquo;s earnest but misinformed response (&amp;ldquo;Punishing the public,&amp;rdquo; letter, Feb. 4) to Rep. Maria Cimini&amp;rsquo;s introduction of a state-wide plastic bag ban. While I applaud her &amp;ldquo;faithful&amp;rdquo; recycling efforts, the fact is that, on average, only 11 percent of a year&amp;rsquo;s worth of produced plastic bags is recycled, and half of those are sent to China where they are recycled in highly toxic processes. Also important to note, that while her creative phrase &amp;ldquo;reuse, recycle, and restore&amp;rdquo; conveniently supports her opinion, it is misquoted. The three R&amp;rsquo;s of waste management and minimization (and the motto for those of us who do place the future health of our planet as a &amp;ldquo;first&amp;rdquo;) are actually &amp;ldquo;reduce, reuse, recycle.&amp;rdquo; Rep. Maria Cimini&amp;rsquo;s bill addresses the first, and what is universally accepted as the most effective piece of the waste management hierarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,3488],"tags":[1585,3557,3610],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Banning plastic bags is essential - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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