welcome, debbie rafael. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity to address you on this issue today. i want to do a callout to ashley summers, who has been tenacious with her follow-up and enthusiasm. i'm incredibly grateful for her work on this. i want to quickly set a context, walk you through the components. you have started to mention them. and look forward. how will this roll out over the next months? drowning in plastic. when i saw the cover of this national geographic magazine, it was incredibly timely and an indication that the whole world is very much focused on this issue of plastics in the marine environment. these incredibly scary statistics, like at the current rate, there will be more plastics than fish by weight by 2050. how can that be? what can we do to take action? we cannot wait for things to happen at the state or the federal and what can cities do? it turns out, there's a lot. how does that plastic get into our oceans? it gets there for the manufacturing process and gets there by litter, that thing