HB62

**HB62-Clean and Green**

 * Title: Clean and Green**
 * Topic: Environment and Energy**
 * Bill Number: HB62**
 * __Sponsors__: Ava Julia Valley and Cee-Jade Nyugen8th Period**
 * __Purpose__: Our number one priority is to improve the environment for our children and many generations, to come. While we are improving the environment, we are also enhancing our economy by providing more jobs for our citizens. This will also help to raise awareness in how we can impact the environment in our everyday lives. This could mean we will start making more eco-friendly products at an inexpensive cost because of how much more recyclable material we will have. The result of these effort could improve our climate by decreasing the amount of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. With the support of United States citizens, we can make this bill effective. If we can all work together, we can achieve a cleaner Earth.**
 * __Eligibility__: All of the citizens will receive the services outlined in our bill. The citizens can get jobs helping the recycling process. They can reap the benefits from their work.**
 * __Terms and Benefits__**
 * 1. __Awareness__**
 * We will advertise the recycling program of sorting out our recyclables through commercials on different media outlets, billboards, news broadcasts, celebrity endorsed songs, and flyers. The advertisements could have famous role models recycling, so more people would want to join them. These messages will help citizens realize the importance of recycling. They can improve the environment, in their everyday lives, very simply.**
 * 2. __Accessibility__**
 * Not everyone, in America, has accessibility to recycling bins. Some of our citizens live in high rise apartments and work in office buildings in major cities. We need to give them bins and the opportunity to recycle. We will institute three different main recycling dumpsters for each kind of material. We will have a series of trucks pick up the recyclables and take them to be reused. This will supply more jobs for people interested in truck driving. The citizens, living in the city, will realize an easier way to be eco-friendly at home.**
 * 3. __Processing our Recyclables__**
 * We can employ many workers to help sort out recyclables. We will have a series of clean factories scattered around the countries. The factories are also clean because renewable energy and recycled materials are used in the factory. In the factory, the trash and recyclables will go by on a conveyor belt and workers will use levers to redirect their path based on the materials. This could help employ several unemployed American citizens.**
 * 4. __Clean Factories__**
 * Factories are often a major problem, in our goal, of clean air. We could go to factory and show them how we made our recycling factory healthy for the environment. We could offer different energy plans depending on the size and type of the factories. They could purchase eco-friendly sources of energy such as solar panels, windmills, and water turbines with a discount for helping the environment. This could decrease harmful gases in the air and improve the environment and our health.**
 * 5. __Fossil Fuels Elimination__**
 * We could create other types of energy at a much lower cost than fossil fuels. We will advertise clean energy through commercials on different media outlets, billboards, news broadcasts, celebrity endorsed songs, and flyers. This will start inspiring companies to use clean energy in their equipment and vehicles. We will offer a discount if a company reaches a certain number of eco-friendly products used.**
 * 6. __Reform__**
 * As our economy grows and changes into an eco-friendly place, we will improve environment, health, and jobs. We may even have an environmental revolution. It will become a new trend in all different types of stores. We can bring the issue close to home with citizens recycling and communities can come together to make gardens and compost piles.**
 * __Fiscal Impact__: Our idea for helping our environment is to remove recyclables from our nation’s trash instead of just burning it or putting it in a dump. An item that will help us to transport trash and recyclables are hybrid garbage truck. These trucks tend to cost around $400,000. In order to purchase these trucks, we plan to use a small percentage of tax money and also a small percentage of the cost will be paid for donation. These trucks are relatively expensive because of the use of new technology, but these trucks will last longer and be more energy efficient. Another factor, that will contribute to the success of this plan is the workers that will apply for the job. Because this job description, the hourly wage we will pay our employees is $28 per hour. To pay for these wages, we will apply a small amount of tax money and donations. By doing each of these tasks, our environment will be cleaner, not only for us, but future generations to come.**