Holmes Beach is making a push to limit single-use plastics ahead of Earth Day.
Code administrator Kim Charron emailed The Islander April 15 to announce the city’s “Say No to Single-Use Plastic” campaign to observe the April 22 holiday.
Charron said city staff would place banners at city hall, 5801 Marina Drive, and Kingfish Boat Ramp, 752 Manatee Ave., to promote the campaign, as well as ask businesses in the city to support the effort.
A flyer for the campaign shows the negative environmental impacts of single-use plastics, such as plastic grocery bags and disposable water bottles, which can take up to 1,000 years to disintegrate.
The flyer also provides advice for how to limit single-use plastics, such as using cloth diapers and less detergent, avoiding disposable cutlery and bottled water, as well as choosing reusable shopping bags.
Information about the campaign can be found at holmesbeachfl.org.
Other environmental efforts
The city also is moving forward on two other environmental fronts:
- City commissioners reached a consensus April 12 to authorize the $45,000 purchase of a wooded lot at 204 31st St. that will be maintained as a buffer for the Grassy Point Preserve to the property’s east.
The city had $50,000 in its 2021-22 budget to acquire the land.
- City commissioners unanimously voted April 12 to send to second/final reading an ordinance establishing a land swap with the owners of 104 34th St.
Part of the deal involves owners Jonathan and Jessica Cooper donating $10,000 to the city to fund environmental projects.
The city’s electorate voted to approve the land swap in the 2021 general election.