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Hawaii is the First State to Ban ALL Plastics for Restaurants

Great News!! Hawaii is the FIRST state to ban all Plastics for all restaurants. 😊💚
Hawaii would be the first state in the U.S. to ban plastics at restaurants under legislation that aims to cut down on waste that pollutes the ocean. 🌎
Dozens of cities across the country have banned plastic foam containers, but Hawaii’s measure would make it the first to do so statewide. The liberal state has a history of prioritizing the environment - it’s mandated renewable energy use and prohibited sunscreen ingredients that harm coral. 🏖

A second, more ambitious proposal would go even further and prohibit fast-food and full-service restaurants from distributing and using plastic drink bottles, utensils, stirring sticks, bags and straws. 👏

The Hawaii efforts would be stricter than in California, which last year became the first state to ban full-service restaurants from automatically giving out plastic straws, and broader than in Seattle, San Francisco and other cities that have banned some single-use plastics. 🌈

“We have this reputation of setting the example for the world to follow, and that’s what we’re trying to do here,” state Sen. Mike Gabbard, lead author of the more ambitious measure, said to the Senate. “Our state can once again take the lead in protecting our environment.” 👍

Gabbard, father of Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, said 95 percent of plastic packaging worldwide is thrown out after being used once. In the U.S., 500 million plastic straws are used and thrown out every day, he said. 🥤

Discarded, slow-to-degrade plastic is showing up at sea, as in a massive gyre northeast of the Hawaiian islands, and on beaches.
* info derived from Hawaii News Now

Way to go Hawaii!! Let’s hope we adopt these measures on the mainland 💚🌎

#stopplasticpollution 
#smallchangesbigresults

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