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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, Earth Day is celebrated every April to bring about
3sustainable practices to support environmental protection; and
 
4    WHEREAS, Bring Your Own Bag Illinois is a State effort to
5raise awareness of the sustainable benefits of bringing your
6own bag when you shop; and
 
7    WHEREAS, Plastic bags consume non-renewable resources;
8they are often thrown away and become litter, which pollutes
9our waterways and clogs our storm drains; and
 
10    WHEREAS, Plastic bags endanger local wildlife that ingest
11bags or become entangled in bags; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Reducing the use of single use disposable plastic
13shopping bags will keep plastic bags out of our landfills, help
14reduce plastic bag litter, prevent clogged storm drains, and
15protect our wildlife; therefore, be it
 
16    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
17HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
18designate April of 2017 as Bring Your Own Bag Month in the
19State of Illinois and call upon all residents to bring reusable
20shopping bags instead of plastic shopping bags with the goal of

 

 

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1changing our dependence on plastic shopping bags.