So you support full disclosure of all the chemicals that go into the plastics that go into the public realm?

There is no way to get those microplastics out of the ocean, those that Senator Sullivan was concerned about and many of us are concerned about.

Senator Merkley's bill, the Break Free from Plastics Act, includes several policies that are designed to help reduce plastic pollution.

the river is just choked with plastic.

Certainly my door is open. I would like to work with you all.

Absolutely, I am concerned about these things.

We need to make sure that it is very lucrative for a fisherman, when they get near ghost gear, to haul it out of the water.

Plastic recycling is essentially phony.

We will continue to work on it.

Thank you very much for your testimony.

And you mentioned recycling. Is your industry supportive of nationwide strategy such as a bottle recycling bill to try to greatly reduce the amounts of bottles?

Now, we are looking at another issue, the issue of plastics.

I think it also becomes clear from the testimony that there is a whole lot of plastic that is absolutely unnecessary to have in our economy.

Isn't the answer none?

I will tell you, in Oregon it is much harder to return to stores now.

I think we may have heard breaking news from Mr. Seaholm on a national bottle bill. We need a national bottle bill.

But I can't pick up a piece of package recycling that is going to exist in the universe for thousands of years to come and find out how much PFAS is in it, or phthalates are in it, because that disclosure is not required, isn't that right?

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