Ban the Bag Monster!

On Halloween It’s In The Bag!

Written by SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel

With the sounds of Halloween here and little ones eager to take their trick-or-treat bags door-to-door, SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel are thinking how nice it would be to keep those bags out all year.

Not just for Halloween candy, apples and treats, but for everyday items, dairy and meats.

When you bring your own reusable bag on shopping trips, instead of using plastic bags from the store, you can reduce the amount of plastic pollution in our environment.

Did you know that each reusable bag equals 400 single-use plastic bags?

Or that 600 plastic bags are thrown away every second in California?

Every year 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide. Of those, 100 billion bags are used in the United States alone.

That’s a lot of plastic bags…most of which end up littering our streets and polluting our waterways and oceans...

endangering sea life – who get tangled in the bags or ingest them – and ultimately entering the food chain.

That’s even scarier than the ghosts and goblins roaming around on All Hallows Eve.

Fortunately California can help stop plastic pollution by voting on November 8^th to get rid of single-use plastic bags. It’s easy. Just Vote YES on 67, the proposition to Ban the Bag.

The Surfrider Foundation (which is dedicated to protecting our oceans, waves and beaches) and other environmental groups, including the California Coastal Commission and the Sierra Club, have long supported legislation to ban plastic bags.

YES on 67 will eliminate single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers in California. When the plastic bags disappear, so will Bag Monsters – ghost-like, spooky spirits made from discarded plastic bags.

For now, though, they’re still out there. So, heed this Halloween warning:

Beware the Bag Monsters…and Don’t Litter! 

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Stash Your Trash on Halloween

When you’re dancing around the fire

watch out for goblins, ghosts and gyres.

It’s nice to have a yummy treat…

Good and Plenty’s, Reese’s Cups, and candy corn to eat.

But, don’t toss your trash on the beach

when recycling cans are in reach.

Remember that Bag Monsters are always near.

You never know when they’ll appear.

With bulging eyes and shark-like teeth to chew,

If you litter, they’ll get you!

Happy Halloween!!!

Patti and Sunny

SurfWriter Girls

Surf’n Beach Scene Magazine

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