A Year-End Win For The Great Lakes
Posted December 28th, 2015 on Niagara At Large
A Message from the U.S.-based Alliance for the Great Lakes to its many American and Canadian supporters.
President Obama just signed legislation (this Monday, December 28th) that will phase out the manufacture and sale of plastic microbeads in personal-care products.
Plastic microbeads wash up along Lake Erie shores. These beads can literally choke the life out of fish populations in lake waters.
This couldn’t have happened without you. When research showed these tiny plastic pieces were flowing down the drain and into the Great Lakes, we asked for your help. And you responded. Thousands of you spoke out, sending action alerts to elected officials and telling them how much the Great Lakes matter.
A Great Lakes state — Illinois — became the first in the nation to ban this unnecessary form of plastic pollution. Indiana and Wisconsin followed, along with 3 Great Lakes counties in New York. The wave of action spread from California to Maine. And now a national ban will protect the Great Lakes and all our nation’s waters.
Thank you for being part of this victory. Here’s to more good news in 2016!
For more on the Alliance for the Great Lakes and how you can support its lobbying efforts to protect these precious shared source of freshwater for tens of millions of people in both countries, click on – http://www.greatlakes.org/getinvolved .
An Niagara At Large footnote – News has it that the Canadian government has been reviewing plans to put in place a similar plan. Here is a link to one story outlining how this issue is being addressed on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes – http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/08/economist-explains-0
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