I recently returned from an 11-day trip to Morocco. One thing I did not see during the entire trip — a plastic bag. There were plenty of plastic water bottles, but I did not see plastic straws, Styrofoam food containers or plastic utensils. The sand dunes in the Sahara Desert were pristine, unlike our beaches.

Morocco has had a ban on plastic bags in place for two years. It used to be the second- largest consumer of plastic bags after the United States.

Surely we who live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth can take better care of our islands and our home planet.

Faye Kurren

Makiki

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