SB32

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__**Purpose:**__ The purpose of our bill is to replace all Styrofoam lunch trays for plastic lunch trays. This will improve the environment and stop filling landfills with the unbiodegradable Styrofoam. With the Plastic trays the schools can reuse them and reduce how much trash they put out.=====

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__**Terms and Benefits:**__ Terms-First, we will get schools to meet at a State Congress meeting by having a representative from each county come, and represent their schools. Then in this meeting we will get the representatives to agree to have their schools change out their school lunch trays, from Styrofoam to plastic trays. We will help them decide by persuading them and giving facts about the dangers of Styrofoam to the kids and the environment. Once we have convinced the county's representer to switch trays to plastic, we will have them sign a contract, that will confirm that they are participating in this act, and send in the order for the trays to the manufacturer (Schools will have to buy trays, $1.50 per tray). When the trays come in, we will send out trucks to deliver the trays and pick up the school's Styrofoam ones. When we have all the Styrofoam trays in possession, we will melt them in a controlled environment. This program will be administered by the EPA- Environmental Protection Agency=====

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Benefits- The benefits of this bill are, that we are helping the environment by stopping the filling of land fills with the unbiodegradable Styrofoam. Styrofoam takes up one third of our land fills and takes up to 500 years to decompose. When the schools switch over to the plastic trays they are also saving their kid's health. Styrofoam has a very harmful chemical called styrene. This chemical can leek into the food that is on the tray, specifically if it is heated. This chemical will effect the nervous system the most. So there are many good reasons why schools will do good by switching from Styrofoam to plastic.===== ====__**Fiscal Impact:**__ The EPA has a budget of $1,738,000,000. To pay for all of the schools to have plastic trays that would be approximately 70 million dollars. The cost to distribute the trays would be about $15,000 per truck. We would need about 300 trucks, so that’s about $4,500,000. If you add $70,000,000 and $4,500,000 then subtract it from $1,738,000,000 you get $1,663,500,000, which is the amount we have left. ====

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