Support a Disposable Bag Fee for Maryland in 2011!

You’re invited to a Panel and Movie Viewing to support

The Clean the Streams and Beautify the Bay Act of 2011

January 27th, 2011 12:30 - 2 PM

The Lowe House Office Building: Room 180

6 Bladen St. Annapolis, MD 21401

The Trash Free Maryland Alliance and District 18 Delegate Al Carr’s office

would like to invite you to learn the facts from the experts

about theClean the Streams and Beautify the Bay Act of 2011,

AKA the proposed Maryland Bag Fee. Following on the heels of Washington DC’s

successful fee on disposable bags

(that has decreased bag consumption nearly 80 percent),

community leaders in Maryland are now building momentum

to limit the number of single-usedisposable bags distributed and

littered in our state.

Please come learn how this legislation will help Maryland grow its

emerging green economy and encourage

a culture of reuse throughout the state. At the conclusion of a

Q/A session with the panel,

supporters will besticking around to

view Oceans of Plastic,

a film about the mounting danger of single use

plastics in our waterways and oceans.

The Distinguished Panel will feature:

MD Delegate Al Carr (District 18)

The lead sponsor of the Bag Bill in the MD House of Representatives

DC Council Member Tommy Wells (Ward 6)

The lead proponent of the successful DC Bag Bill

Chestertown Mayor Margo Bailey

A community leader working to ban plastic bags in her municipality

to protect the Chester River

Andrew Harris

 A researcher from MD who is developing an ocean sampler to measure the concentration

of plastic particulates in the North Pacific Gyre

Panel will be facilitated by Brent Bolin,

Director of Advocacy for The Anacostia Watershed Society

For more information please visit:

www.TrashFreeMaryland.org

Attachments: 

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