Plastic bags News
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Los Angeles -
Environmentalists won a major victory on Wednesday when the Los Angeles City Council voted 13 to 1 to phase out plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines over the next 16 months.
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Honolulu -
The option to choose paper or plastic is officially coming to an end in sunny Hawaii, the first U.S. state to ban plastic bags.
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Currently several cities in the US are examining the possibility of implementing a plastic bag ban. Disposable plastic bags have been an issue that has been under increased scrutiny because of the environmental impact of consumers not reusing the bags.
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With the looming US debt crisis, famine in East Africa, and mass murder in Norway, why should we be concerned about plastic bags?
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Toronto -
After successfully following through on three of his many campaign promises, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is looking at eliminating the 5-cent plastic bag tax that retailers are mandated to charge.
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Beijing -
In a river in eastern China, fishermen stumbled upon 21 babies inside plastic bags. Local authorities suspect that a nearby hospital dumped the babies as trash.
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On Wednesday, hundreds of stores in Mexico City have become green after a new law that will order businesses to stop selling thin plastic bags that are not biodegradable.
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Paper or plastic seems like an old question, but actually it’s only a couple of decades old, and if California state legislators get their way the question will be “paper or do you want to pay a quarter for each plastic bag?”
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Stephen Joseph started the SaveThePlasticBag.com. In April 2007 after San Francisco banned plastic bags he was approached by plastic bag manufacturers who wanted him to help them defeat the bans.
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When Daniel Burd, 16, was doing his science fair project he latched onto the idea that plastic bags could be broken down much quicker than 1,000 years. The kid was right. His reseach shortens break down time into a mere 3 months.
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Plastic bags may be bad, but are the alternatives better?
A rubber chicken wearing an outfit knitted from plastic bags by a woman from Rugby is to be launched into space by Nasa on Sunday.
The mutilated bodies of at least 49 people have been found in Mexico, stuffed into plastic bags and dumped on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey.
 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will try to scrap the five-cent plastic bag fee today even as a motion to direct a portion of proceeds from the fee to tree canopy protection goes to the powerful executive committee.
These days, there are a lot of butts in the ocean. The kind you smoke, that is. New numbers out today from environmental advocates at the Ocean Conservancy show that cigarette butts are at the top of the global trash heap, outnumbering plastic bottles, bags...
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Plastic bags Blogs
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Its tax time in Canada, again. The fact is there is a constant stream of tax revenue that flows into the Canadian...
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