BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 26, 2021
Take a deep breath, drink a glass of water, eat a snack. If you do any of these things, it’s likely that you are also inhaling and ingesting tiny particles of plastic, as much as a credit card’s weight each week. Plastic pollution is everywhere, including in our bodies. Just as tobacco companies hid the health effects of smoking and oil companies obscured the facts of global warming, the plastic industry has spent 60 years covering up its waste problem by making it your fault. The Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act would require plastic manufacturers to deal with the tide of plastic waste and pollution that disproportionately harms low-income people of color. Individuals don’t start pollution. The industry does. We must demand that they stop it. ~ Allison Cobb