November 7, 2020
Today, a well-known nonprofit called Environment Saving Solutions (ESS) based in Portland, Oregon, finalized their program to replace all plastic bags in stores with eco-friendly, compostable bioplastic. ESS began this program because they knew that plastic was the main part of all trash and bad for the environment. The Pacific Trash Vortex, a patch of plastic and garbage the size of Texas floating in the North Pacific, is particularly troubling. ESS is supported with money and personnel from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Together, the ESS and the EPA are working together to create a new era for shoppers.
During the program, ESS and EPA have discovered how serious our plastic problem is and was. The United States was almost completely depending on petroleum for our plastic products. Because we are almost out of oil, our plastic products are about to use up all of our fuel. If ESS and EPA had not acted sooner, the U.S. plastic market would have run dry!
Luckily, the ESS and EPA acted fast enough, and they saved the U.S. economy, and a lot of nature. "We did it for the people, not the profit," says the chair of the board of ESS, a amazing man from Portland, OR, named Alex Seeker, who has dedicated his life to ESS, and saving the environment.