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	"author_name": "Clean+Healthy",
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	"title": "LET&#x27;S SOLVE THE PACKAGING PROBLEM!",
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	"description": "We can reduce packaging, boost reuse, refill, and recycling, and get toxics out of packaging in NYS! The United States has a huge waste problem. New York City alone produces 14 million tons of trash per year. Most of this material goes to landfills or incinerators, taking up more and more land and poisoning our air. Roughly 30% of all US waste comes from packaging, and 11% of our climate emissions come from packaging.  On top of that, a lot of packaging is made with toxic chemicals and materials, like PVC, formaldehyde, bisphenols (think BPA), styrene, heavy metals and more. This bill shifts financial responsibility from municipalities to the companies that produce the packaging in the first place, and creates incentives for reduction in packaging, development of infrastructure for reusable packaging, and for use of recycled content materials. It also bans key toxic chemicals, sets up a process for the Department of Environmental Conservation and a taskforce to add to the list. And it defines recycling to exclude toxic and untested technologies that too often turn plastics into fuels, or back into chemicals, not back into products. To create a nontoxic, just, and circular economy, we have to ensure that the materials we are putting back into the reusable/recyclable stream do not contain toxic chemicals. By eliminating chemicals that are carcinogens, mutagens, reproductive toxicants, immunotoxins, neurotoxicants, or endocrine disruptors from products, we will protect human health and the planet. We need you to send a message to Senate President Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and your local legislators that the time is now to pass the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act in both houses. Please start writing now! ----------------&amp;gt;    ",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/lets-solve-the-packaging-problem"
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