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Environment California needs your help:
With only a few weeks left to pass a ban on single-use plastic bags, you can help give turtles a voice — and put our campaign over the top.
Floating in the ocean, a plastic bag looks a lot like a jellyfish to a sea turtle — one of their favorite foods. And the chilling fact is that turtles can choke on these bags or starve to death with stomachs filled with plastic.
In order to bring much-needed attention to the damage the 19 billion single-use plastic bags California uses each year does to wildlife and the environment, we’re taking a giant, 25-foot inflatable turtle on tour through the state.
Building the turtle and paying for travel will cost us about $10,000 — which we need to raise by next week. Can you help make our plan a reality by donating today?
We’re at a critical moment in our campaign to ban single-use plastic bags in California. And with our opposition lobbying hard against us, it’s going to take an extra push to pass the ban.
A ban on single-use plastic bags would be a game changer — reducing the number of plastic bags we use each year by billions and billions, and would cut the waste that’s littering our streets and beaches and accumulating in the oceans.
Big opportunities call for big turtles.
Here’s our plan:
* Build a giant 25-foot turtle, and bring it up and down the coast holding rallies for the bag ban, with stops in San Diego, Long Beach, San Barbara, San Luis Obispo and San Jose.
* Cut through the opposition’s smoke-screens. Chemical industry lobbyists are claiming this problem can really be solved through better recycling. We want to remind people of the bottom line: The 19 billion bags we use each year hurt our environment, especially the sea turtles who mistake the bags for food. We can’t recycle our way out of the problem.
* Get local mayors, city-council members and other elected officials to join with us in calling for a statewide single-use plastic bag ban. This campaign started at the local level and will end with their strong support.
Whether you donate $25 or $250, your contribution today brings a ban on single-use bags one step closer:
https://www.environmentcalifornia.org/action/oceans/turtle-tour?id4=ES
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