As plastic waste threatens lakes and oceans, Fort Worth residents work to ban single-use plastic bags

Pollution with plastic waste is not confined to the oceans but poses a growing threat to lakes as well.

The Fort Worth Sierra Club is working on a single-use plastic bag ban.

Plastic bags are littering the Trinity River, lakes, parks, neighborhoods, roadways and are clogging our sewage and wastewater systems. Plastic bags don’t biodegrade. Please help make Fort Worth an environmental leader by banning single-use plastic bags in Fort Worth.

Please sign the petition!

About Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

Comments

Tom says

November 6, 2013 at 10:18 pm

Here’s another reason to ban plastic bags, that I’m surprised you don’t hear much about in Texas: livestock eat them and can die if the bag gets jammed up in their digestive system.

I wonder how many cows have been killed by these stupid bags and the idiots that throw them out?