Dear fellow citizens,

As we all know, the plastic we use in our daily lives created for one-time use is threatening the survival of our planet.

Our obsession with feel and comfort has pushed companies to provide excess packaging by the day.

Countries to which the United States used to send plastic waste to are now refusing to take it. Therefore, that plastic waste is being burned in our own neighborhoods, ravaging both our air and water.

According to this article, traces of plastics are found even in the most remote of ants that live in the wilderness: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-world-is-stuck-with-decades-of-new-plastic-it-can-t-recycle?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Recently, we have been seeing compostable plastics for single-use, but there is no solution yet for everyday-use hard-plastic containers like milk cans, detergent containers, hand soap containers, and auto cleaning agents.

The only way out of our situation now is to create less plastic in the first place.

Hence, our federal and state governments should mandate that companies provide refill pack options so that customers can reuse their existing hard-plastic containers for items such as soap and detergent instead of throwing them away after just one use.

To make it more attractive, companies can pass the savings gained from creating refill packs rather than hard-plastic containers back to customers, thereby creating a win-win situation for us all.

If we continue to ignore this issue and think that it will go away on its own instead of taking action, we will soon reach the point of no return.

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