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**Rise** **Above Plastics and Ban the Bag!** YOU can help Rise Above Plastics and prevent plastic marine debris in the state of California! Send a letter to your representative today to help keep plastic bag litter out of our oceans, waves and beaches. Kauai, Outer Banks (NC), Malibu, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Bangladesh and China have already outlawed these environmental menaces - now California can be the first state in the US to do so! Single-use plastic bags represent one of the greatest environmental catastrophes of our generation. It is estimated that 60-80% of all debris in the ocean is plastic. Plastics take hundreds of years to break down at sea and most types never truly biodegrade. As a result, marine animals often get entangled in the debris or mistake it for food. Support the Portland Chapter reduce the use of these damaging bags.

Urge your Senators to show their support for healthy beaches and robust coastal economies by cosponsoring the Clean Coastal Environment & Public Health Act of 2009. Don't let them put this off for yet another year! [|Learn More]
 * Pass the Beach Bill **

Visit a Wildlife Conservation website and you will see many options for supporting conservation efforts.

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 * World Wildlife Fund**

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 * Marinebio**

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 * Orange County Coastkeeper**

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 * Surfrider Foundation USA**

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 * Marine Conservation Society**

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 * Natural Resource Defense Council**