Hello Deerfield Academy, 

This is a petition to ban all single use plastics at our school. Single use plastics such as plastic bags, plastic water bottles, plastic utensils, plastic food containers, and plastic food wraps.

Explaining the problem we want to solve:

 All of these things are bad for the environment as we already know. As we learned in our D-term journey, 80 percent of plastic that is produced doesn’t get recycled. This is why by the year 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish. If we don’t do something about this soon our oceans will never recover. Fish will become scarce, coral reefs will die, and businesses that rely on these things will suffer. Help us make a change by signing this petition.