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From our partner Ban the Bag in Bellingham

Seattle needs our help!

Read The Stranger’s recent endorsement of  Seattle’s Green Bag Campaign. We thought it was pretty entertaining:

“This was a tough one, as both sides made excellent points. On the one hand, environmentalists who know about things like “science” and “dead sea mammals” have researched the issue thoroughly and say that the 20-cent fee on disposable shopping bags—the proceeds of which go partially to the stores and partially to fund recycling programs—would help decrease the number of plastic bags currently piling up in landfills, or being downcycled to shittier plastic bags and then piling up in landfills, and, eventually, slowly disintegrating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch until they resemble tiny, delicious plankton particles that fish mistake for food but are actually POISON.

On the other hand, plastic-bag companies want more money!”

Seattle needs our help. The American Chemistry Council (backed by Exxon Mobil and other oil giants) has now contributed over $1,000,000 to overturning existing law for a 20 cent fee on plastic bags in Seattle.

Tell your friends and family in Seattle to vote YES on Refurendum 1 on August 18th.


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