Everybody uses plastic daily; it’s a durable and inexpensive material. Plastic can vary from bags, bottles, straws, and more. After you’ve used it, you throw it away, but it’s never really gone. Plastics are non-biodegradable and only keep getting smaller and smaller into microscopic fragments without ever going away. Those fragments are called microplastics, which are about the size of a sesame seed and are easily ingested by wildlife.

What plastics are doing:

• killing wildlife
• raising health risks to humans
•  damaging the diverse Florida ecosystem

What we can do to reverse this issue:

•  stop or limit the use of plastic products
• use reusable bags, bottles, straws, and more
• participate in local beach, river, or lake clean-ups around Florida

The state of Florida needs to ban single-use plastics to help end the addition of plastics in our ecosystem.

The reason why I started this petition is to make a change and not just raise awareness of this time bomb. We created this problem decades ago thinking plastic products were good inventions; now it's our duty to put an end to it.