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<div style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF834&version=0&session=ls89&session_year=2015&session_number=0" target="_blank">https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF834&version=0&session=ls89&session_year=2015&session_number=0</a> </div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Calibri">Also, Laurie, you still want us to remove all of the extra individual names on these messages, right? I remembered!</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Calibri">Well, here I go out onto the Mississippi to boat. Maybe a bunch of microbeads will get stuck in my water cooling thinger and plug it up and then we can get boaters involved in stopping this madness. That has to be at least
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<div id="divRpF896447" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] on behalf of Catherine Zimmer [zenllc@usfamily.net]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 10, 2015 3:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Ed Gottlieb'; 'Bickford, Barbara J - DNR (Barb)'; pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Pharmwaste] RE: Wisconsin adopts ban on microbeads<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for the inside story, Ed. I wondered why these “bans” were passing so easily. Jen V. do you have the language of the bill passed here in MN?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Very truly yours,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Catherine Zimmer, MS, BSMT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Zimmer Environmental Improvement, LLC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Pristina; color:#00B050">Reducing and managing healthcare related waste and costs for fifteen years.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ed Gottlieb<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 07, 2015 1:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bickford, Barbara J - DNR (Barb); pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pharmwaste] RE: Wisconsin adopts ban on microbeads</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">In signing the ban on plastic microbeads in personal care products (PCP), Governor Walker showed his support of the plastics and cosmetics industries and his
lack of concern for the environment and human health.<br>
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The movement to ban microbeads in PCP is primarily driven by their ability to collect and concentrate pharmaceuticals and other pollutants which then enter the food chain when the beads are eaten by aquatic organisms. In response to the ban the bead movement,
the plastics industry has been successfully pushing state legislatures to adopt bans using wording that they wrote rather than wording promoted by environmental groups. The industry version has two provisions that make it very objectionable to anyone wanting
an effective ban. It is the plastics industry version that Governor Walker just signed into law.<br>
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The law [http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/related/acts/43] only applies to, "non-biodegradable, solid plastic" [</span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"; color:black">299.50 Sec 1(e)]</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">.
With "non-biodegradable" left undefined, it can, and will, be argued that the plastics used (or the bio-polymers they could switch to) are biodegradable. But, under what conditions do they biodegrade?
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It has been reported that the biodegradable plastics now available require composting at high temperatures to break down. They do not biodegrade in the natural environment. California is now considering a ban on biodegradable microbeads in PCP! For a detailed
explanation of this point, read these recent stories: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"><a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/2015/01/28/3612216/environmentalists-pan-microbeads.html" target="_blank">http://www.thenewstribune.com/2015/01/28/3612216/environmentalists-pan-microbeads.html</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/jun/08/california-microbead-ban-bioplastic-story-of-stuff-water" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/jun/08/california-microbead-ban-bioplastic-story-of-stuff-water</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">The Wisconsin law also includes an industry written ban on local communities enacting legislation [Sec 4]. "A political subdivision
may not enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution concerning the manufacture, sale, or distribution of products containing synthetic plastic microbeads."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">This law is a total win for the manufactures and polluters, allowing them to continue their activities while locking out effective
local legislation.<br>
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When your state legislators consider a ban on plastic microbeads in PCP, please be sure to lobby for a bill that does not include the non-biodegradable loop-hole or a ban on local action. Thanks!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Ed Gottlieb<br>
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us" target="_blank">pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a> [pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] on behalf of Bickford, Barbara J - DNR (Barb) [Barbara.Bickford@wisconsin.gov]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 02, 2015 6:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us" target="_blank">pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pharmwaste] Wisconsin adopts ban on microbeads</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color:black">Wisconsin adopts ban on microbeads</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Wisconsin is
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">the seventh state to ban</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"> microbeads in personal care products. On Wednesday, Governor Walker signed bipartisan
legislation that bans the manufacturing of microbead products at the beginning of 2018 and their sale one year later. <br>
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-governor-walker-signs-bill-banning-microbeads-002857108--sector.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-governor-walker-signs-bill-banning-microbeads-002857108--sector.html</a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#984806">Barb Bickford</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Medical Waste Coordinator and Hydrogeologist</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources<br>
101 S. Webster St., PO Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707-7921<br>
Phone: 608-267-3548<br>
Fax: 608-267-2768<br>
<a href="mailto:barbara.bickford@wisconsin.gov" target="_blank">barbara.bickford@wisconsin.gov</a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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