Re: “Plastic waste: Prolonged producer duty” [Dec. 3, Northwest Voices]:
The abundance of plastic in our trash is disgusting. Plastic, together with different litter, can also be despoiling the panorama and polluting our waterways. We do want “prolonged producer duty” for packaging in Washington; British Columbia, Oregon and California have already got it. Producers should turn out to be financially accountable for the end-of-life prices of their merchandise.
Greenhouse gasoline emissions emitted within the transportation sector and the heating/cooling of buildings are main causes of world warming. However we overlook or don’t understand the plastic in bottles, different packaging and plastic merchandise generally is derived from fossil fuel-based chemical compounds. Its manufacturing requires drilling for extra oil, and the manufacturing course of generates extra emissions. We must be recycling and reusing current plastic as a substitute of beginning anew and sharply lowering our use of petroleum-based plastic.
Temperatures are going to proceed rising it doesn’t matter what we do. However we should attempt to sluggish the rise. Nothing in need of eliminating our use of oil, gasoline and coal will work.
Letter author Pam Clough is correct on. We must always name our legislators (instantly or 800-562-6000), and urge them to cross prolonged producer duty in 2024.
Lon Dickerson, Renton
