We are three fourth-grade students from Harney Elementary who are doing a STEM project about plastic pollution in the environment. We want to inform our community about this problem and help solve it by asking you to take plastic bags out of stores.
Plastic is made with toxic chemicals that can end up on our plates. Animals eat the plastic and we eat them. That’s very bad. We can get very sick. Plastic in an animal’s gut can prevent food digestion and can lead to a very slow and painful death. In the blog post “How Much Trash Is In Our Ocean” on 4ocean.com, it says, “Every hour, approximately 1.6 million tons of waste enters our ocean. Yearly, a colossal 14 billion tons of trash ends up in our beautiful oceans. Of this waste, much of it is plastic.” Our lakes, rivers and oceans are dirty and practically a huge trash can.
We are hoping that you can help us with this problem. Please help our environment by taking plastic bags out of our stores. Thank you for considering our idea.
