I am a Littleton resident writing to encourage you to consider looking into the benefits of the City of Littleton developing a 10-cent bag tax. I urge you to add the said initiative to the 2022 - 2023 City Council Work Plan Dashboard, under the Environmental Stewardship goal. I hope we can meet briefly at some point between March 11th – 18th, before I go back to college.

As a Colorado native, I grew up learning to love the environment that was provided to me and I want to make sure that we sustain the said environment for generations to come. According to Plastic Bags | Littleton CO each citizen within the city uses more than 300 single-use plastic bags a year, totaling around 12 million single-use plastic bags annually being used in Littleton…

Aspiration

To stop all plastic use within The City of Littleton, Colorado. The environment is in desperate need of relief.

Providing said relief will bring about a more prosperous life for those who inhabit the city, and this small act can seriously contribute to this goal…

After going through a year of events that felt like they could have been gone through in a lifetime; a pandemic, a broken foot, health complications, a malpractice case, and my grandpa's death, another one came along. In early August of 2021, my grandmother, Bia, ended up in the hospital after contracting a severe case of E. coli. This came after water sources within the city of Littleton had been contaminated. Like many other residences, I felt helpless and confused as too where this outbreak came from. Then one day, I stumbled across an article from the Denver Post. According to the report that the article discussed, E. coli contamination within the South Platte River area was 137 times higher than the federal safety limit. I was shocked. Immediately I was on a hunt to find a solution. Although the level of contamination seemed impossible, the solution I found was an easy one. It starts with one small step: reducing the amount of single-use plastic circulating within our community…