THE PUBLIC POLICY QUESTION I POSED TODAY TO DISTRICT 14 STATE SENATOR SARAH ECKHARDT OF THE AUSTIN AREA:

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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>

To: State Senator Sarah Eckhardt 2020 <sarah.eckhardt@senate.texas.gov>; campaign@saraheckhardt.com <campaign@saraheckhardt.com>; media@mjfortexas.com <media@mjfortexas.com>; Joe Biden <info@joebiden.com>

Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020, 12:47:59 AM CDT

Subject: 9-4-20 question for Sen. Eckhardt re: refunds on recycled plastic bottles

September 4, 2020

Dear Texas Senate District 14 State Senator Eckhardt of the Austin area,

On Monday of this week I purchased an 11.5-ounce plastic bottle of "Simply Orange" (registered trademark name) fruit juice here in Austin. 

The back of the bottle contained a recently-copyrighted request, "PLEASE RECYCLE", in all-capitalized letters.

Immediately below that request I found the following statement:

"HI, ME 5 c (a symbol for cents), OR 10 c (a symbol for cents) CA CRV."

Simply Orange Juice Company is headquartered at Apopka, Florida, 32703, USA. The bottle of orange juice I purchased that was produced by that company bears the copyright date of 2018.

Senator Eckhardt, I am writing you today to ask you if you believe that the Texas Legislature should follow the lead set by Hawaii, Maine, and Oregon by approving a new state law for the Lone Star State that offers financial refunds to persons who recycle their plastic bottles. I would mention California in that list, but I am not sure what "CRV" means.

As you are no doubt painfully aware, discarded plastic products are NOT biodegradable. They exacerbate our state's already-severe and unsightly litter problem, play a major role in congestion of our state's public landfills, and cause widespread destruction of our land and waterways throughout our entire state ---including along the beaches of (and inside) the Gulf of Mexico near our state.

Senator Eckhardt, I hope to hear from you soon in response to this tentative public-policy suggestion from myself.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, a law-abiding, gainfully-employed, permanently-teetotaling, single adult English-Scottish-German-American Anglo male constituent of yours. I am also the founder and only current approved member of a new and non-Christian religion, the "Honor Society" Progressive Prohibitionist Religion.

My solo-occupancy rental-home apartment-unit address ever since June 21, 2019:

Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Bldg. 17, Austin, TX 78753.

Home phone: (512) 342-2295.

Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

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