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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | May 10, 2023 03:22 PM |
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| From: | Representative Leanne Krueger |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Co-Sponsorship: Resolution Designating June 1, 2023, as “Skip the Straw Day in Pennsylvania” |
| Plastic debris harms more than 1,200 species across the globe. Plastics, micro-plastics, and plastic fibers contaminate mountain peaks, landfills, and ocean trenches. These materials and particles infiltrate our soil, our drinking water, and the air we breathe. Contributing to this crisis, Americans generate waste from an estimated 500 million single-use disposable plastic straws. To put this into greater context, 500 million single-use straws is enough to fill over 46,400 full sized school buses per year. In the past, I have worked in collaboration with a class of fourth graders at Wallingford Elementary School in Delaware County on this issue. As such, I plan to re-introduce my Resolution that will designate June 1, 2023 as “Skip the Straw Day” in Pennsylvania. Broader actions to reduce plastic waste in our great Commonwealth must involve small actions like increasing awareness to change human habits. As parents, lawmakers, and citizens, we should all agree that educating our constituencies about the harmful long-term effects of single-use straws and other plastics to our environment should be of the utmost importance. With that said, I encourage you to please join me in co-sponsoring this Resolution so we can begin the process of reducing the harmful effects of single-use plastic straws here at home by “Skipping the Straw” one day at a time. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Takesha Latham in my Harrisburg office at (717) 705-2567. |
Introduced as HR119