Letter to the editor: Legislation needed to ban plastic packaging

For argument’s sake, let’s accept Flexible Packaging Association President and CEO Dan Felton’s spurious claim in his recent op-ed that legislation to curtail the proliferation of harmful and unnecessary plastic packaging would lead to “wet, soggy toilet paper.”

Even if that were true, occasional – and avoidable – inconveniences are trivial compared with dangers to our and future generations’ health through overreliance on toxic and carcinogenic plastic.