Letter to the Editor: Claudia Riedener

Dear Editor,

Since January 2014, The News Tribune has dropped over 2.6 million plastic bag wrapped advertisements in our neighborhoods. These bags are thrown from moving vehicles and land in our gutters, streets and sidewalks. The bags get run over, deteriorate and wash straight down the storm drains and unencumbered into the Salish Sea. Even if you opt-out the bags keep coming….

Please tell the News Tribune to stop this unconscionable practice of polluting Tacoma and surrounds with plastic trash. Over 2.6 million plastic bags thrown about in one year – think about that.

Starting 2015, environmental services fees have gone up for all of us. We all pay for Tribune plastic ad-bags ending up in the waste and recycling stream. The Tribune simply gets to throw them at us without dealing with the clean-up.

Claudia Riedener

Tacoma