“Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.”

Zac Goldsmith U.K. Minister of State for Overseas

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Chapter Seven: Ban Certain Plastics: Styrofoam, Plastic Straws, Plastic in Cigarettes and Single-Use Plastic Bags (1)
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“Cigarette filters are the deadliest fraud in the history of human civilization. They are put on cigarettes to save on the cost of tobacco and to fool people. They don’t filter at all. In the U.S., 400,000 people a year die from cigarettes–and those cigarettes almost all have filters.”

 

Robert Proctor, Professor, history of science

Stanford University

 

“Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.”

Zac Goldsmith U.K. Minister of State for Overseas

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