Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act
S.1464-a (Senator Harckham)/A.1749-a (Assemblymember Glick)
To Senators Stewart-Cousins, Patricia Fahy and Michelle Hinchey:
I am writing on behalf of the Clean Air Coalition of Greater Ravena-Coeymans. Our community of supporters lives in New Baltimore, Coeymans, Ravena, and Bethlehem, among other places in the Hudson Valley. Since 2017, we have been working to limit toxic emissions from local industrial sites after the LaFarge Cement Plant (now Amrize) in Ravena proposed the burning of one-third of Connecticut’s municipal waste as fuel.
Our opposition was based in part on the fact that household rubbish includes considerable
amounts of different plastic packaging which produce a variety of emissions that can be harmful to human health. That is why, as a Coalition, we are strongly supporting the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act. Plastic may be profitable for businesses, but these profits come at the expense of the health of our neighbors and damage to the environment, both locally and around the world.
I’m sure you are aware of research that proves how damaging plastic waste can be, so I won’t bore you to stand-up to the presssure. The cost of reducing such waste is nothing compared to the cost of managing the consequences to our health and the health of our waters, soils and air.
Many thanks for supporting the passage of this very important bill.
Yours sincerely,
Barbara Heinzen
On behalf of the Clean Air Coalition of Greater Ravena-Coeymans