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A First for Political Theatre: Bag Monster

March 25th, 2015 by Mike Vasilinda

Take a look at this. He’s called a bag monster and he was walking around the state Capitol today to dramatize the harm done by plastic bags. According to the Surfrider Foundation, the average family uses 500 plastic bags a year that end up in land fills or in our waterways.Holly Parker says the Foundation would like to see an end to a state ban on any local anti bag ordinances.

“Florida is currently the only state that has a preemption on regulating plastic bags at all, which is really unfortunate since we have so much coast line. You would think we would be  leader on this issue. Hawaii has almost a statewide ban and other states are following in that process. Other states have communities banning bags locally.”

The ban was enacted five years ago and was led by newspapers who feared they would have no way to protect their papers from wet mornings. Other states have limited the ban to grocery and other stores. Whole Foods grocery stores offer a charity donation or  ten cent refund to people with reusable bags.

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