Sign the petition to support local action to address plastic pollution.
Speak up using this petition to tell municipal officials that New Jersey is ready to take bold action to ban single-use plastics.
We owe it to the next generation to limit the ubiquity of single use plastics that on average are used for 12 minutes before being discarded where they can take up to 1000 years to break down - and even then they can continue to contaminate our environments.
At the current rate, by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our ocean, and inland water ways.
Yesterday a Bill that would prohibit single use carryout bags made of plastic film, polystyrene foam food service products, and single-use plastic straws, and assess a fee on paper carryout bags made it out of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee. On Monday Dec 9 it will be heard in the Assembly Environment & Solid Waste Committee.
If enough municipalities adopt ordinances, we can demonstrate to state legislators that towns are ready for strong action and give them the support they need to rally the votes and pass this Bill!
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The New Jersey Highlands Coalition
We represent a diverse network of organizations - small and large, local, regional, statewide and national - and individuals with the common goal to protect, enhance and restore the New Jersey Highlands and to preserve the quality and quantity of drinking water both for the 850,000 people in the Highlands as well as the more than 6.2 million people in surrounding areas who depend on Highlands water.
Contributions from supporters such as you are New Jersey Highlands Coalition’s largest source of funding and ensure that the Coalition has the resources to continue to be your voice speaking up for the NJ Highlands in the future.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
- Henry David Thoreau
