
National Recycling Project
If we’re serious about taking in climate change, we can’t do it without recycling. That’s why our grassroots campaign, the National Recycling Project, will help take on this global crisis.
We need to ensure that our planet has clean water, a clean environment, and that single-use plastics don’t end up in our landfills. Without recycling, we just add more problems. With rising CO2 levels in the air, sea levels rise, storms are getting worse, wildfires occur without notice, and temperatures are getting hotter and colder in record breaking numbers.
Thats why we need to enact a national container deposit tax at a 10¢ default. Eleven states including Guam also do this, but nine of these places only use the 5¢ incentive tax. Michigan saw their recycling habits at an astonishing 97% because they were at a 10¢ deposit. Instead of just bottles, let’s make that plastic bottles, glass bottles, and aluminum cans. In the last six decades, only 9% of plastic was recycled. That number needs to change. Drastically.
Let’s also strive to ensure that we end the food waste problem. Many stores are forced to throw away foods that didn’t sell at the end of the day. Instead, let’s make sure we make it a law to donate unsold foods to homeless shelters. With food that actually needs to be thrown out, it can be renewed into green energy.
We can propose an eco-friendly way to use single-use plastic such as biodegradable straws and paper straws. Biodegradable straws can disappear in 90 days. Styrofoam is also a major issue. It takes styrofoam 500 years to decompose. In order to help our planet, let’s cut the sale and distribution of styrofoam by 90% by 2028 and have it banned nation-wide by 2030 while being half way there by 2025.
Let’s take action. This is our planet. Join us. It will take you, me, and all of us.
We need to ensure that our planet has clean water, a clean environment, and that single-use plastics don’t end up in our landfills. Without recycling, we just add more problems. With rising CO2 levels in the air, sea levels rise, storms are getting worse, wildfires occur without notice, and temperatures are getting hotter and colder in record breaking numbers.
Thats why we need to enact a national container deposit tax at a 10¢ default. Eleven states including Guam also do this, but nine of these places only use the 5¢ incentive tax. Michigan saw their recycling habits at an astonishing 97% because they were at a 10¢ deposit. Instead of just bottles, let’s make that plastic bottles, glass bottles, and aluminum cans. In the last six decades, only 9% of plastic was recycled. That number needs to change. Drastically.
Let’s also strive to ensure that we end the food waste problem. Many stores are forced to throw away foods that didn’t sell at the end of the day. Instead, let’s make sure we make it a law to donate unsold foods to homeless shelters. With food that actually needs to be thrown out, it can be renewed into green energy.
We can propose an eco-friendly way to use single-use plastic such as biodegradable straws and paper straws. Biodegradable straws can disappear in 90 days. Styrofoam is also a major issue. It takes styrofoam 500 years to decompose. In order to help our planet, let’s cut the sale and distribution of styrofoam by 90% by 2028 and have it banned nation-wide by 2030 while being half way there by 2025.
Let’s take action. This is our planet. Join us. It will take you, me, and all of us.
Organizer
National Recycling Project
Organizer
Kissimmee, FL